ArticleAutism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research2015
Measuring social attention and motivation in autism spectrum disorder using eye-tracking: Stimulus type matters.
Article in Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06116552 (More and Less Social Comprehension), which is not on this map. Cited by 129 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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More and Less Social Comprehension: Child and Text Factors for Autistic Children
Who cites it
129 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 246 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Diagnostic Potential of Eye Tracking to Detect Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children: A Systematic Review.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Pooled it
- Eye Tracking as a Treatment Monitoring Tool for Autism: A Multilevel Meta-Analysis.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Pooled it
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of atypical visual attention towards non-social stimuli in preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Pooled it
- Mapping autism's research landscape: trends in autism screening and its alignment with sustainable development goals.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- A Meta-Analysis of Gaze Differences to Social and Nonsocial Information Between Individuals With and Without Autism.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2017Pooled it
- Intact animacy perception during chase detection in ASD.Scientific reports · 2017Trial
- Development of an Objective Autism Risk Index Using Remote Eye Tracking.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2016Trial
- Context Matters: Assessing Sex and Diagnostic Differences in Autistic Children's Language Across Tasks With Differing Levels of Structure.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Improving Autism Diagnosis Across Ages Using Eye-Tracking and Temporal Transformer Models.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Participant-Independent Classification of Autism-Related Visual Attention Patterns from Eye-Tracking Scanpath Images Using a Global-Local Fusion Network.Journal of eye movement research · 2026Article
- Valence-Arousal Asymmetry: Rethinking Facial Emotion Recognition in Preschool Autism Through Eye-Tracking.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026Article
- Home-based eye tracking for early autism screening: a scoping review of approaches, evidence, and implementation challenges.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Preserved and non-preserved social attentional processes in Autism and developmental language disorder at early ages.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Development and Validation of a Short Version Eye-Tracking Paradigm for the Screening and Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Qatar.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026Article
- Towards the ecological automated measurement of joint attention: Development of an interactive eye-tracking battery for joint attention in children with and without autism.Behavior research methods · 2026Article
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- Watching Together, Yet Feeling Apart: Interpersonal Neural Synchronization as a Marker of Symptom Severity in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder During Naturalistic Viewing.Human brain mapping · 2026Article
- Real-world application of an eye-tracking device for autism screening and diagnosis: a short report from public demonstrations in Qatar, Dubai and the U.S.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Digital screening of children with ASD: diagnostic accuracy of emotion recognition and visual preference tasks.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Examining the Link Between Social Affect and Visual Exploration of Cute Stimuli in Autistic Children.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
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Abstract
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is characterized by social impairments that have been related to deficits in social attention, including diminished gaze to faces. Eye-tracking studies are commonly used to examine social attention and social motivation in ASD, but they vary in sensitivity. In this study, we hypothesized that the ecological nature of the social stimuli would affect participants' social attention, with gaze behavior during more naturalistic scenes being most predictive of ASD vs. typical development. Eighty-one children with and without ASD participated in three eye-tracking tasks that differed in the ecological relevance of the social stimuli. In the "Static Visual Exploration" task, static images of objects and people were presented; in the "Dynamic Visual Exploration" task, video clips of individual faces and objects were presented side-by-side; in the "Interactive Visual Exploration" task, video clips of children playing with objects in a naturalistic context were presented. Our analyses uncovered a three-way interaction between Task, Social vs. Object Stimuli, and Diagnosis. This interaction was driven by group differences on one task only-the Interactive task. Bayesian analyses confirmed that the other two tasks were insensitive to group membership. In addition, receiver operating characteristic analyses demonstrated that, unlike the other two tasks, the Interactive task had significant classification power. The ecological relevance of social stimuli is an important factor to consider for eye-tracking studies aiming to measure social attention and motivation in ASD.
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