Putting the Spotlight Back Onto the Flanker Task in Autism: Autistic Adults Show Increased Interference from Foils Compared with Non-autistic Adults

• Published in: Journal of cognition Vol. 7; no. 1; p. 46
• Main Authors: Poole, Daniel, Grange, James A., Milne, Elizabeth
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Ubiquity Press 23.05.2024
• Subjects: autism; drift diffusion model; flanker task; selective attention; drift diffusion model; flanker task; selective attention; autism

Autistic people may have a less focused spotlight of spatial selective attention than non-autistic people, meaning that distracting stimuli are less effectively suppressed. Previous studies using the flanker task have supported this suggestion with observations of increased congruency effects in aut...