ArticleJournal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry2016
Enhanced Social Attention in Female Infant Siblings at Risk for Autism.
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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
- The Emergence of Autism Symptoms Prior to 18 Months of Age: A Systematic Literature Review.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2021Pooled it
- Empathy Impairment in Individuals With Autism Spectrum Conditions From a Multidimensional Perspective: A Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Pooled it
- Atypicality of the N170 Event-Related Potential in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Meta-analysis.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2018Pooled it
- Meta-Analysis of the RDoC Social Processing Domain across Units of Analysis in Children and Adolescents.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Pooled it
- 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
- Relations Between Preferential Looking to Synchronous Audiovisual Speech and Expressive Language in Infants With Autistic and Non-Autistic Siblings.Mind, brain and education : the official journal of the International Mind, Brain, and Education Society · 2026Article
- Narrative Ability in Autism and First-Degree Relatives.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Infant Social Attention Associated with Elevated Likelihood for Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Multi-Method Comparison.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Preserved but Un-Sustained Responses to Bids for Dyadic Engagement in School-Age Children with Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Context effects: discourse structure influences narrative ability in autism and first-degree relatives.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Early selective attention to the articulating mouth as a potential female-specific marker of better language development in autism: a review.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Investigating social orienting in children with Phelan-McDermid syndrome and 'idiopathic' autism.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2024Article
- Family history of psychiatric conditions and development of siblings of children with autism.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Article
- Mid-childhood autism sibling recurrence in infants with a family history of autism.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Article
- Sex differences in social brain neural responses in autism: temporal profiles of configural face-processing within data-driven time windows.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Maternal anxiety during pregnancy predicts infant attention to affective faces.Journal of affective disorders · 2024Article
- Sex Differences in the Developmental Trajectories of Autism Spectrum Disorder.Current developmental disorders reports · 2023Article
- Effects of social complexity and gender on social and non-social attention in male and female autistic children: A comparison of four eye-tracking paradigms.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2023Article
- Distinct social attention profiles in preschoolers with autism contrasted to fragile X syndrome.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveSexual dimorphism in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is a well-recognized but poorly understood phenomenon. Females are four times less likely to be diagnosed with ASD than males and, when diagnosed, are more likely to exhibit comorbid anxiety symptoms. One of the key phenotypic features of ASD is atypical attention to socially relevant stimuli. Eye-tracking studies indicate atypical patterns of spontaneous social orienting during the prodromal and early syndromic stages of ASD. However, there have been no studies evaluating sex differences in early social orienting and their potential contribution to later outcomes.
methodWe examined sex differences in social orienting in 6-, 9-, and 12-month-old infants at high genetic risk for ASD (n = 101) and in low-risk controls (n = 61), focusing on neurobehavioral measures of function across a spectrum of autism risk.
resultsResults suggest that, between 6 and 12 months of age, a period highly consequential for the development of nonverbal social engagement competencies, high-risk females show enhanced attention to social targets, including faces, compared to both high-risk males and low-risk males and females. Greater attention to social targets in high-risk infants was associated with less severe social impairments at 2 years.
conclusionThe results suggest an alternative expression of autism risk in females, which manifests in infancy as increased attention toward socially relevant stimuli. This increased attention may serve as a female protective factor against ASD by providing increased access to social experiences in early development.
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