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Eye tracking in early autism research
Eye tracking has the potential to characterize autism at a unique intermediate level, with links ‘down’ to underlying neurocognitive networks, as well as ‘up’ to everyday function and dysfunction. Because it is non-invasive and does not require advanced motor responses or language, eye tracking is p...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3849191/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24069955 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1866-1955-5-28 |
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author | Falck-Ytter, Terje Bölte, Sven Gredebäck, Gustaf |
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description | Eye tracking has the potential to characterize autism at a unique intermediate level, with links ‘down’ to underlying neurocognitive networks, as well as ‘up’ to everyday function and dysfunction. Because it is non-invasive and does not require advanced motor responses or language, eye tracking is particularly important for the study of young children and infants. In this article, we review eye tracking studies of young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and children at risk for ASD. Reduced looking time at people and faces, as well as problems with disengagement of attention, appear to be among the earliest signs of ASD, emerging during the first year of life. In toddlers with ASD, altered looking patterns across facial parts such as the eyes and mouth have been found, together with limited orienting to biological motion. We provide a detailed discussion of these and other key findings and highlight methodological opportunities and challenges for eye tracking research of young children with ASD. We conclude that eye tracking can reveal important features of the complex picture of autism. |
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spelling | pubmed-38491912013-12-04 Eye tracking in early autism research Falck-Ytter, Terje Bölte, Sven Gredebäck, Gustaf J Neurodev Disord Review Eye tracking has the potential to characterize autism at a unique intermediate level, with links ‘down’ to underlying neurocognitive networks, as well as ‘up’ to everyday function and dysfunction. Because it is non-invasive and does not require advanced motor responses or language, eye tracking is particularly important for the study of young children and infants. In this article, we review eye tracking studies of young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and children at risk for ASD. Reduced looking time at people and faces, as well as problems with disengagement of attention, appear to be among the earliest signs of ASD, emerging during the first year of life. In toddlers with ASD, altered looking patterns across facial parts such as the eyes and mouth have been found, together with limited orienting to biological motion. We provide a detailed discussion of these and other key findings and highlight methodological opportunities and challenges for eye tracking research of young children with ASD. We conclude that eye tracking can reveal important features of the complex picture of autism. BioMed Central 2013 2013-09-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3849191/ /pubmed/24069955 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1866-1955-5-28 Text en Copyright © 2013 Falck-Ytter et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Falck-Ytter, Terje Bölte, Sven Gredebäck, Gustaf Eye tracking in early autism research |
title | Eye tracking in early autism research |
title_full | Eye tracking in early autism research |
title_fullStr | Eye tracking in early autism research |
title_full_unstemmed | Eye tracking in early autism research |
title_short | Eye tracking in early autism research |
title_sort | eye tracking in early autism research |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3849191/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24069955 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1866-1955-5-28 |
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