TY  - GEN
PB  - OSF Preprints
Y1  - 2019/06/19/
A1  - Ruttenberg, D
A1  - Porayska-Pomsta, K
A1  - White, SJ
A1  - Holmes, J
CY  - Charlottesville, VA, USA
N2  - Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC) is a life-long diagnosis, which has a subset of individualized characteristics consisting of hyper-, seeking- and/or hypo-reactivity to sensory inputs or unusual interests (APA, 2013). These sensitivities are evident in both environmental (e.g. apparent response to specific sounds, visual fascination with lights or movements) and physiological domains (e.g. anxiety, respiration or euthermia). As part of a larger PhD Research Project (SensorAble), this pilot study proposes that autistic individuals who exhibit greater distractibility and reduced focus/attention resulting stimuli may benefit from interventions that alter, redirect and/or attenuate stimuli. In particular, Irrelevant-Sound Effect (ISE) consisting of un-targeted and/or modulated sonics cause greater disruption of performance of simultaneous and visual simple tasks compared to baseline ISE that are merely directed. Using gold-standard Stroop experiments, data collected among neurotypical (NT) and ASC individuals at baseline and at various ISE modes result in greater reaction time (RT) improvements among ASC than NT participants. In this study, which focuses on aural distractibility only, data supports that signal processing may provide a gateway to enhancing focus and attention while reduce distractibility and anxiety in other domains.
EP  - 5
AV  - public
ID  - discovery10097072
N1  - This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
KW  - Autism Spectrum Condition
KW  -  Attention
KW  -  Focus
KW  -  Distractibility
KW  -  Anxiety
KW  -  Digital Signal Processing
KW  - 
Selective Attention Theory
KW  -  Irrelevant-Sound Effect
KW  -  Stroop Test
TI  - Sound Impairment Effect on Cognitive Skill Performance
UR  - https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/fng7d
ER  -