ArticleDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2018
Simulating interaction: Using gaze-contingent eye-tracking to measure the reward value of social signals in toddlers with and without autism.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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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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- [Clinical effect of integrated sandplay therapy in children with Asperger syndrome].Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatrics · 2019Trial
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- 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
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- Motivation from Agency and Reward in Typical Development and Autism: Narrative Review of Behavioral and Neural Evidence.Brain sciences · 2022Review
- Neural responses to affective speech, including motherese, map onto clinical and social eye tracking profiles in toddlers with ASD.Nature human behaviour · 2022Article
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- Erratum issuedErratum.2020
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Abstract
Several accounts have been proposed to explain difficulties with social interaction in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), amongst which atypical social orienting, decreased social motivation or difficulties with understanding the regularities driving social interaction. This study uses gaze-contingent eye-tracking to tease apart these accounts by measuring reward related behaviours in response to different social videos. Toddlers at high or low familial risk for ASD took part in this study at age 2 and were categorised at age 3 as low risk controls (LR), high-risk with no ASD diagnosis (HR-no ASD), or with a diagnosis of ASD (HR-ASD). When the on-demand social interaction was predictable, all groups, including the HR-ASD group, looked longer and smiled more towards a person greeting them compared to a mechanical Toy (Condition 1) and also smiled more towards a communicative over a non-communicative person (Condition 2). However, all groups, except the HR-ASD group, selectively oriented towards a person addressing the child in different ways over an invariant social interaction (Condition 3). These findings suggest that social interaction is intrinsically rewarding for individuals with ASD, but the extent to which it is sought may be modulated by the specific variability of naturalistic social interaction.
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