ABSTRACT

The present study examined potential sex- and age-related differences in inhibitory control in adolescents with and without ASD. A computerized flanker visual filtering task and a go/no-go task were used to assess the ability to resist interference from visual distractors (RIVD) and prepotent response inhibition, respectively. Overall, the ASD and non-ASD groups performed comparably on both tasks and no sex-related differences or interactions (group-by-sex) were apparent. Consistent with past research, however, we did observe a significant age-related improvement in RIVD performance among the ASD group (but not the non-ASD group).

摘要

本研究检查了患有和不患有 ASD 的青少年在抑制控制方面的潜在性别和年龄相关差异。计算机化的侧翼视觉过滤任务和走/不走任务分别用于评估抵抗视觉干扰 (RIVD) 和优势反应抑制的干扰的能力。总体而言，自闭症谱系障碍组和非自闭症谱系障碍组在这两项任务上的表现相当，并且没有明显的性别差异或相互作用（按性别分组）。然而，与过去的研究一致，我们确实观察到 ASD 组（而非非 ASD 组）的 RIVD 性能与年龄相关的显着改善。