ArticleBehavioural brain research2013
The development of face orienting mechanisms in infants at-risk for autism.
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98 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 256 citations in OpenAlex.
- Eye-Tracking in Infants and Young Children at Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review of Visual Stimuli in Experimental Paradigms.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2021Pooled it
- Early non-social behavioural indicators of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in siblings at elevated likelihood for ASD: a systematic review.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
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- Parent-delivered early intervention in infants at risk for ASD: Effects on electrophysiological and habituation measures of social attention.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2017Trial
- First evidence of the feasibility of gaze-contingent attention training for school children with autism.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2016Trial
- The "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" Test: Complete Absence of Typical Sex Difference in ~400 Men and Women with Autism.PloS one · 2015Trial
- Association between eye-tracking measures and Griffiths-III developmental scores at 18 months in healthy term-born children.Pediatric research · 2026Article
- A cascading effects model of early sensory development in autism.Psychological review · 2026Review
- Reduced social prioritization: An underlying mechanism driving slower latency to look at faces in autism.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2026Article
- Autistic Individuals Do Not Alter Visual Processing Strategy During Encoding Versus Recognition of Faces: A Hidden Markov Modeling Approach.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- The role of machine learning in autism spectrum disorder assessment and management.Pediatric research · 2025Review
- Narrative Ability in Autism and First-Degree Relatives.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Do Infant Heart Rate Variability and Visual Attention Predict Autism and Concerns for ADHD?Journal of attention disorders · 2025Article
- Infant Social Attention Associated with Elevated Likelihood for Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Multi-Method Comparison.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Gaze behavior when looking at paintings may predict autistic traits.PsyCh journal · 2025Article
- Sit and face the world: ontogenetic adaptation in infant vocal production and visual attention during the transition to independent sitting.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Disrupted visual attention relates to cognitive development in infants with Neurofibromatosis Type 1.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2025Article
- Context effects: discourse structure influences narrative ability in autism and first-degree relatives.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Unique and shared influences of anxiety and ADHD on the behavioral profile of autism in early childhood.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
- Attention toward Social and Non-Social Stimuli in Preschool Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Paired Preference Eye-Tracking Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
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Abstract
A popular idea related to early brain development in autism is that a lack of attention to, or interest in, social stimuli early in life interferes with the emergence of social brain networks mediating the typical development of socio-communicative skills. Compelling as it is, this developmental account has proved difficult to verify empirically because autism is typically diagnosed in toddlerhood, after this process of brain specialization is well underway. Using a prospective study, we directly tested the integrity of social orienting mechanisms in infants at-risk for autism by virtue of having an older diagnosed sibling. Contrary to previous accounts, infants who later develop autism exhibit a clear orienting response to faces that are embedded within an array of distractors. Nevertheless, infants at-risk for autism as a group, and irrespective of their subsequent outcomes, had a greater tendency to select and sustain attention to faces. This pattern suggests that interactions among multiple social and attentional brain systems over the first two years give rise to variable pathways in infants at-risk.
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