Background: Some studies find that individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) experience difficulties in disengaging their attention from one stimulus and shifting to another, but findings are mixed. It is possible that instead of being a domain-general characteristic of ASD, the attentional differences may be affected by participants’ inherent interest in the conceptual content of the stimuli they are shifting from and towards. Method: Children with ASD (n = 22) and age-matched typically developing (TD) children (n = 22) Children partic...
