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Individual differences in responsivity to social rewards: Insights from two eye-tracking tasks
Humans generally prefer social over nonsocial stimuli from an early age. Reduced preference for social rewards has been observed in individuals with autism spectrum conditions (ASC). This preference has typically been noted in separate tasks that measure orienting toward and engaging with social sti...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5646758/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29045458 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185146 |
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author | Chakrabarti, Bhismadev Haffey, Anthony Canzano, Loredana Taylor, Christopher P. McSorley, Eugene |
author_facet | Chakrabarti, Bhismadev Haffey, Anthony Canzano, Loredana Taylor, Christopher P. McSorley, Eugene |
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description | Humans generally prefer social over nonsocial stimuli from an early age. Reduced preference for social rewards has been observed in individuals with autism spectrum conditions (ASC). This preference has typically been noted in separate tasks that measure orienting toward and engaging with social stimuli. In this experiment, we used two eye-tracking tasks to index both of these aspects of social preference in in 77 typical adults. We used two measures, global effect and preferential looking time. The global effect task measures saccadic deviation toward a social stimulus (related to ‘orienting’), while the preferential looking task records gaze duration bias toward social stimuli (relating to ‘engaging’). Social rewards were found to elicit greater saccadic deviation and greater gaze duration bias, suggesting that they have both greater salience and higher value compared to nonsocial rewards. Trait empathy was positively correlated with the measure of relative value of social rewards, but not with their salience. This study thus elucidates the relationship of empathy with social reward processing. |
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spelling | pubmed-56467582017-10-30 Individual differences in responsivity to social rewards: Insights from two eye-tracking tasks Chakrabarti, Bhismadev Haffey, Anthony Canzano, Loredana Taylor, Christopher P. McSorley, Eugene PLoS One Research Article Humans generally prefer social over nonsocial stimuli from an early age. Reduced preference for social rewards has been observed in individuals with autism spectrum conditions (ASC). This preference has typically been noted in separate tasks that measure orienting toward and engaging with social stimuli. In this experiment, we used two eye-tracking tasks to index both of these aspects of social preference in in 77 typical adults. We used two measures, global effect and preferential looking time. The global effect task measures saccadic deviation toward a social stimulus (related to ‘orienting’), while the preferential looking task records gaze duration bias toward social stimuli (relating to ‘engaging’). Social rewards were found to elicit greater saccadic deviation and greater gaze duration bias, suggesting that they have both greater salience and higher value compared to nonsocial rewards. Trait empathy was positively correlated with the measure of relative value of social rewards, but not with their salience. This study thus elucidates the relationship of empathy with social reward processing. Public Library of Science 2017-10-18 /pmc/articles/PMC5646758/ /pubmed/29045458 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185146 Text en © 2017 Chakrabarti et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Chakrabarti, Bhismadev Haffey, Anthony Canzano, Loredana Taylor, Christopher P. McSorley, Eugene Individual differences in responsivity to social rewards: Insights from two eye-tracking tasks |
title | Individual differences in responsivity to social rewards: Insights from two eye-tracking tasks |
title_full | Individual differences in responsivity to social rewards: Insights from two eye-tracking tasks |
title_fullStr | Individual differences in responsivity to social rewards: Insights from two eye-tracking tasks |
title_full_unstemmed | Individual differences in responsivity to social rewards: Insights from two eye-tracking tasks |
title_short | Individual differences in responsivity to social rewards: Insights from two eye-tracking tasks |
title_sort | individual differences in responsivity to social rewards: insights from two eye-tracking tasks |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5646758/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29045458 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185146 |
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