Autistic Children Quickly Orient Away from Both Eyes and Mouths During Face Observation

Studies have supported two different hypotheses of reduced eye gaze in people with ASD; gaze avoidance and gaze indifference, while less is known about the role of anxiety. We tested these hypotheses using an eye-tracking paradigm that cued the eyes or mouth of emotional faces. Autistic children (n ...

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Autores principales: Jónsdóttir, Lilja Kristín, Neufeld, Janina, Falck-Ytter, Terje, Kleberg, Johan Lundin
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Publicado: Springer US 2022
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9889486/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35138557
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-05378-x
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author Jónsdóttir, Lilja Kristín
Neufeld, Janina
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Kleberg, Johan Lundin
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description Studies have supported two different hypotheses of reduced eye gaze in people with ASD; gaze avoidance and gaze indifference, while less is known about the role of anxiety. We tested these hypotheses using an eye-tracking paradigm that cued the eyes or mouth of emotional faces. Autistic children (n = 12, mean age 7 years) looked faster away from both eyes and mouths than controls (n = 22). This effect was not explained by anxiety symptoms. No difference was found in latency towards either area. These results indicate that attentional avoidance of autistic children is not specific to eyes, and that they do not show attentional indifference to eyes compared to controls. Atypicalities in visual scanning in ASD are possibly unrelated to specific facial areas. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10803-021-05378-x.
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spelling pubmed-98894862023-02-02 Autistic Children Quickly Orient Away from Both Eyes and Mouths During Face Observation Jónsdóttir, Lilja Kristín Neufeld, Janina Falck-Ytter, Terje Kleberg, Johan Lundin J Autism Dev Disord Brief Communication Studies have supported two different hypotheses of reduced eye gaze in people with ASD; gaze avoidance and gaze indifference, while less is known about the role of anxiety. We tested these hypotheses using an eye-tracking paradigm that cued the eyes or mouth of emotional faces. Autistic children (n = 12, mean age 7 years) looked faster away from both eyes and mouths than controls (n = 22). This effect was not explained by anxiety symptoms. No difference was found in latency towards either area. These results indicate that attentional avoidance of autistic children is not specific to eyes, and that they do not show attentional indifference to eyes compared to controls. Atypicalities in visual scanning in ASD are possibly unrelated to specific facial areas. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10803-021-05378-x. Springer US 2022-02-09 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9889486/ /pubmed/35138557 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-05378-x Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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title_fullStr Autistic Children Quickly Orient Away from Both Eyes and Mouths During Face Observation
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title_short Autistic Children Quickly Orient Away from Both Eyes and Mouths During Face Observation
title_sort autistic children quickly orient away from both eyes and mouths during face observation
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