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Fig. 1 | Molecular Autism

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From: Visual attention and inhibitory control in children, teenagers and adults with autism without intellectual disability: results of oculomotor tasks from a 2-year longitudinal follow-up study (InFoR)

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Experimental design. From left to right: Gap, Step, Overlap and Antisaccade tasks. As indicated by the white arrows (in lower panels), in the first three tasks, after an initial center screen fixation (green boxes), participants had to move their gaze toward a peripheral target (red squares) as soon as it appeared on the screen. The central anchoring point (green square) disappeared prior to (Gap task) or coincident with (Step task, i.e., 0-Gap) the peripheral target’s appearance, or it remained on screen along with target in the Overlap task. In the Antisaccade task, participants had to move their eyes in the opposite direction to that of the target. The Gap, Step and Overlap tasks allow the evaluation of attention disengagement by means of the Gap (Gap latency < Step latency) and Overlap effects (Step latency < Overlap latency). The Antisaccade task allows assessment of inhibitory control (Gap latency < Antisaccade latency)

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Molecular Autism

ISSN: 2040-2392