ArticleNeuron2015
Atypical Visual Saliency in Autism Spectrum Disorder Quantified through Model-Based Eye Tracking.
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134 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The Diagnostic Potential of Eye Tracking to Detect Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children: A Systematic Review.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Pooled it
- Computer vision in autism spectrum disorder research: a systematic review of published studies from 2009 to 2019.Translational psychiatry · 2020Pooled it
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- Atypical Attentional Effort During Visual Search in Autistic Adults: Evidence From Task-Evoked Pupillary Responses.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026Article
- Common thought patterns reflect generosity, fairness, and social context.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Conceptual priorities shape individual gaze patterns during naturalistic visual attention.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Learned foveal representations, not gaze-mediated information access, underlie perceptual advantages for canonical face configurations.Journal of vision · 2026Article
- The role of (observed) gaze behaviour in identity recognition.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- Eye Tracking for Rehabilitation and Training in Paediatric Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Systematic Review.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Detection of Idiosyncratic Gaze-Fingerprint Signatures in Humans.Psychological science · 2026Article
- Dysfunctional neural dynamics associated with sensory phenotypes in Fragile X syndrome: insights from mouse models.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2025Review
- Visual attention graph.Behavior research methods · 2025Article
- Excitatory/inhibitory ratio disruption modulates neural synchrony and flow directions in a cortical microcircuit.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- Saliency Models Reveal Reduced Top-Down Attention in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Naturalistic Eye-Tracking Study.JAACAP open · 2025Article
- Gaze dynamics during natural scene memorization and recognition.Cognition · 2025Article
- Preliminary findings on the different gaze patterns on animal-based and human-based picture books in autistic children.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Gaze behaviors during free viewing revealed differences in visual salience processing across four major psychiatric disorders: a mega-analysis study of 1012 individuals.Molecular psychiatry · 2025Article
- Individual gaze predicts individual scene descriptions.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Usability of the digit-tracking technique in a geriatric population of inpatients with and without neurocognitive disorders: The DIGICOG-start study.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2025Article
- A neuronal code for object representation and memory in the human amygdala and hippocampus.Nature communications · 2025Article
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Abstract
The social difficulties that are a hallmark of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are thought to arise, at least in part, from atypical attention toward stimuli and their features. To investigate this hypothesis comprehensively, we characterized 700 complex natural scene images with a novel three-layered saliency model that incorporated pixel-level (e.g., contrast), object-level (e.g., shape), and semantic-level attributes (e.g., faces) on 5,551 annotated objects. Compared with matched controls, people with ASD had a stronger image center bias regardless of object distribution, reduced saliency for faces and for locations indicated by social gaze, and yet a general increase in pixel-level saliency at the expense of semantic-level saliency. These results were further corroborated by direct analysis of fixation characteristics and investigation of feature interactions. Our results for the first time quantify atypical visual attention in ASD across multiple levels and categories of objects.
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