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Abstract：
Individuals often use others\' gaze and head directions to direct their attention. To investigate the influence of autistic traits on social attention, we conducted two experiments comparing groups with high and low autistic traits in single-cue (Experiment 1) and conflicting-cue (Experiment 2) scenarios. Our findings indicate that individuals responded more rapidly to the direction of a single social cue or the consensus of multiple cues. However, we did not observe significant differences in social attention between individuals with high and low autistic traits. Notably, as the stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) increased, individuals with low autistic traits exhibited greater improvements in reaction speed compared to those with high autistic traits. This suggests that individuals with low autistic traits excel at leveraging temporal information to optimize their behavioral readiness over time, hinting at potential variations in cognitive flexibility related to autistic traits.
摘要：
个人经常使用别人的视线和头部方向来引导他们的注意力。探讨自闭症特征对社会注意力的影响,我们进行了两个实验,在单线索(实验1)和冲突线索(实验2)的情况下比较了具有高自闭症和低自闭症特征的组.我们的发现表明，个人对单个社会线索的方向或多个线索的共识反应更快。然而,我们没有观察到具有高自闭症和低自闭症特征的个体在社会注意力方面的显著差异。值得注意的是,随着刺激开始异步(SOA)的增加，与具有高自闭症特征的个体相比，具有低自闭症特征的个体在反应速度上表现出更大的改善。这表明，具有低自闭症特征的个体擅长利用时间信息来优化他们的行为准备，暗示与自闭症特征相关的认知灵活性的潜在变化。
