ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2015
No Evidence of Emotional Dysregulation or Aversion to Mutual Gaze in Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Eye-Tracking Pupillometry Study.
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- 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
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- Visual Attention to Dynamic Emotional Faces in Adults on the Autism Spectrum.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- Temporal progression of pupil dilation and gaze behavior to emotion expressions in preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Reduced Pupil Oscillation During Facial Emotion Judgment in People with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Article
- Associations between the pupil light reflex and the broader autism phenotype in children and adults.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Slower Peak Pupillary Response to Emotional Faces in Parents of Autistic Individuals.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Combined frequency-tagging EEG and eye-tracking measures provide no support for the "excess mouth/diminished eye attention" hypothesis in autism.Molecular autism · 2020Article
- Atypical Pattern of Frontal EEG Asymmetry for Direct Gaze in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2019Article
- Psychophysiological Arousal and Auditory Sensitivity in a Cross-Clinical Sample of Autistic and Non-autistic Anxious Adults.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2018Article
- Seeing More Than Human: Autism and Anthropomorphic Theory of Mind.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Review
- Pupil adaptation corresponds to quantitative measures of autism traits in children.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Others' emotions teach, but not in autism: an eye-tracking pupillometry study.Molecular autism · 2016Article
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Abstract
The 'gaze aversion hypothesis', suggests that people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) avoid mutual gaze because they experience it as hyper-arousing. To test this hypothesis we showed mutual and averted gaze stimuli to 23 mixed-ability preschoolers with ASD (M Mullen DQ = 68) and 21 typically-developing preschoolers, aged 2-5 years, using eye-tracking technology to measure visual attention and emotional arousal (i.e., pupil dilation). There were no group differences in attention to the eye region or pupil dilation. Both groups dilated their pupils more to mutual compared to averted gaze. More internalizing symptoms in the children with ASD related to less emotional arousal to mutual gaze. The pattern of results suggests that preschoolers with ASD are not dysregulated in their responses to mutual gaze.
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