ArticleJournal of neurodevelopmental disorders2016
Verbal labels increase the salience of novel objects for preschoolers with typical development and Williams syndrome, but not in autism.
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- Correlation Between Gaze Behaviors and Social Communication Skills of Young Autistic Children: A Meta-Analysis of Eye-Tracking Studies.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Pooled it
- No transfer of arousal from other's eyes in Williams syndrome.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Competing Perceptual Salience in a Visual Word Recognition Task Differentially Affects Children With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2021Article
- Neurodevelopmental Disorders Affecting Sociability: Recent Research Advances and Future Directions in Autism Spectrum Disorder and Williams Syndrome.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2018Review
- Comparing the broad socio-cognitive profile of youth with Williams syndrome and 22q11.2 deletion syndrome.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR · 2017Article
- Social Attention, Joint Attention and Sustained Attention in Autism Spectrum Disorder and Williams Syndrome: Convergences and Divergences.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundEarly research has documented that young children show an increased interest toward objects that are verbally labeled by an adult, compared to objects that are presented without a label. It is unclear whether the same phenomenon occurs in neurodevelopmental disorders affecting social development, such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and Williams syndrome (WS).
methodsThe present study used a novel eye-tracking paradigm to determine whether hearing a verbal label increases the salience of novel objects in 35 preschoolers with ASD, 18 preschoolers with WS, and 20 typically developing peers.
resultsWe found that typically developing children and those with WS, but not those with ASD, spent significantly more time looking at objects that are verbally labeled by an adult, compared to objects that are presented without a label.
conclusionsIn children without ASD, information accompanied by the speaker's verbal label is accorded a "special status," and it is more likely to be attended to. In contrast, children with ASD do not appear to attribute a special salience to labeled objects compared to non-labeled objects. This result is consistent with the notion that reduced responsivity to pedagogical cues hinders social learning in young children with ASD.
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