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Sex Differences in Social Attention in Infants at Risk for Autism
We studied visual attention to emotional faces in 10-month-old infant siblings of children with ASD (ASD-sibs; N = 70) and a siblings of typically developing children (N = 29) using static stimuli. Contrary to our predictions, we found no evidence for atypical gaze behavior in ASD-sibs when boys and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6450841/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30467821 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-018-3799-z |
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author | Kleberg, Johan Lundin Nyström, Pär Bölte, Sven Falck-Ytter, Terje |
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description | We studied visual attention to emotional faces in 10-month-old infant siblings of children with ASD (ASD-sibs; N = 70) and a siblings of typically developing children (N = 29) using static stimuli. Contrary to our predictions, we found no evidence for atypical gaze behavior in ASD-sibs when boys and girls were analyzed together. However, a sex difference was found in ASD-sibs' visual attention to the mouth. Male ASD-sibs looked more at the mouth across emotions compared to male controls and female ASD-sibs. In contrast, female ASD-sibs looked less at the mouth compared to female controls. These findings suggest that some aspects of early emerging atypical social attention in ASD-sibs may be sex specific. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s10803-018-3799-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-64508412019-04-17 Sex Differences in Social Attention in Infants at Risk for Autism Kleberg, Johan Lundin Nyström, Pär Bölte, Sven Falck-Ytter, Terje J Autism Dev Disord Original Paper We studied visual attention to emotional faces in 10-month-old infant siblings of children with ASD (ASD-sibs; N = 70) and a siblings of typically developing children (N = 29) using static stimuli. Contrary to our predictions, we found no evidence for atypical gaze behavior in ASD-sibs when boys and girls were analyzed together. However, a sex difference was found in ASD-sibs' visual attention to the mouth. Male ASD-sibs looked more at the mouth across emotions compared to male controls and female ASD-sibs. In contrast, female ASD-sibs looked less at the mouth compared to female controls. These findings suggest that some aspects of early emerging atypical social attention in ASD-sibs may be sex specific. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s10803-018-3799-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer US 2018-11-22 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6450841/ /pubmed/30467821 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-018-3799-z Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Kleberg, Johan Lundin Nyström, Pär Bölte, Sven Falck-Ytter, Terje Sex Differences in Social Attention in Infants at Risk for Autism |
title | Sex Differences in Social Attention in Infants at Risk for Autism |
title_full | Sex Differences in Social Attention in Infants at Risk for Autism |
title_fullStr | Sex Differences in Social Attention in Infants at Risk for Autism |
title_full_unstemmed | Sex Differences in Social Attention in Infants at Risk for Autism |
title_short | Sex Differences in Social Attention in Infants at Risk for Autism |
title_sort | sex differences in social attention in infants at risk for autism |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6450841/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30467821 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-018-3799-z |
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