Individual differences in autistic traits predict the perception of direct gaze for males, but not for females

Despite the emphasis of autism spectrum disorders as a continuum of atypical social behaviors and the sexual heterogeneity of phenotypic manifestations, whether gaze processing constitutes an autistic endophenotype in both sexes remains unclear. Using the Autism-Spectrum Quotient and a psychophysica...

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Autores principales: Matsuyoshi, Daisuke, Kuraguchi, Kana, Tanaka, Yumiko, Uchida, Seina, Ashida, Hiroshi, Watanabe, Katsumi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3926258/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24521089
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2040-2392-5-12
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author Matsuyoshi, Daisuke
Kuraguchi, Kana
Tanaka, Yumiko
Uchida, Seina
Ashida, Hiroshi
Watanabe, Katsumi
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description Despite the emphasis of autism spectrum disorders as a continuum of atypical social behaviors and the sexual heterogeneity of phenotypic manifestations, whether gaze processing constitutes an autistic endophenotype in both sexes remains unclear. Using the Autism-Spectrum Quotient and a psychophysical approach in a normal population (N = 128), here we demonstrated that individual differences in autistic traits predicted direct-gaze perception for males, but not for females. Our findings suggest that direct-gaze perception may not constitute an autistic endophenotype in both sexes, and highlight the importance of sex differences when considering relationships between autistic traits and behaviors.
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spelling pubmed-39262582014-02-18 Individual differences in autistic traits predict the perception of direct gaze for males, but not for females Matsuyoshi, Daisuke Kuraguchi, Kana Tanaka, Yumiko Uchida, Seina Ashida, Hiroshi Watanabe, Katsumi Mol Autism Letter to the Editor Despite the emphasis of autism spectrum disorders as a continuum of atypical social behaviors and the sexual heterogeneity of phenotypic manifestations, whether gaze processing constitutes an autistic endophenotype in both sexes remains unclear. Using the Autism-Spectrum Quotient and a psychophysical approach in a normal population (N = 128), here we demonstrated that individual differences in autistic traits predicted direct-gaze perception for males, but not for females. Our findings suggest that direct-gaze perception may not constitute an autistic endophenotype in both sexes, and highlight the importance of sex differences when considering relationships between autistic traits and behaviors. BioMed Central 2014-02-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3926258/ /pubmed/24521089 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2040-2392-5-12 Text en Copyright © 2014 Matsuyoshi 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 credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Individual differences in autistic traits predict the perception of direct gaze for males, but not for females
title Individual differences in autistic traits predict the perception of direct gaze for males, but not for females
title_full Individual differences in autistic traits predict the perception of direct gaze for males, but not for females
title_fullStr Individual differences in autistic traits predict the perception of direct gaze for males, but not for females
title_full_unstemmed Individual differences in autistic traits predict the perception of direct gaze for males, but not for females
title_short Individual differences in autistic traits predict the perception of direct gaze for males, but not for females
title_sort individual differences in autistic traits predict the perception of direct gaze for males, but not for females
topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3926258/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24521089
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2040-2392-5-12
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