ArticleClinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science2018
Gaze Following is Related to the Broader Autism Phenotype in a Sex-Specific Way: Building the Case for Distinct Male and Female Autism Phenotypes.
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- 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 quantitative meta-analysis of face recognition deficits in autism: 40 years of research.Psychological bulletin · 2021Pooled it
- Broader autism phenotype, the default mode network, and brain entropy: A network-level hypothesis.Research in neurodiversity · 2026Article
- Sex differences in the relationship between autistic traits and face-change discrimination sensitivity in the general population: a psychophysical investigation.Cognitive processing · 2025Article
- Association Between Joint Attention and Autism Traits in Young Adults: A Gaze-Contingent Eye-Tracking Study.Research in autism · 2025Article
- Social visual attention as a treatment outcome: evaluating the social games for autistic adolescents (SAGA) intervention.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Eye-tracking correlates of response to joint attention in preschool children with autism spectrum disorder.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Individual differences in gaze-cuing effect are associated with facial emotion recognition and social conformity.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Time perception of individuals with subthreshold autistic traits: the regulation of interpersonal information associations.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
- Motion or sociality? The cueing effect and temporal course of autistic traits on gaze-triggered attention.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2022Article
- Mediating Effect of Emotional and Social Competences on Interrelations Between Gender, Age and the Broad Autism Phenotype.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2021Article
- Sex Differences in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Focus on High Functioning Children and Adolescents.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Measuring sensitivity to eye gaze cues in naturalistic scenes: Presenting the eye gaze FoCuS database.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2020Article
- Does decreased visual attention to faces underlie difficulties interpreting eye gaze cues in autism?Molecular autism · 2020Article
- Brain Connectivity and Neuroimaging of Social Networks in Autism.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2018Review
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Abstract
The search for a female autism phenotype is difficult, given the low diagnostic rates in females. Here, we studied potential sex differences in a core feature of autism, difficulty with eye gaze processing, among typically developing individuals who vary in the broad autism phenotype, which includes autistic-like traits that are common, continuously distributed, and similarly heritable in males and females. Participants viewed complex images of an actor in a naturalistic scene looking at one of many possible objects and had to identify the target gazed-at object. Among males, those high in autistic-like traits exhibited worse eye gaze following performance than did those low in these traits. Among females, eye gaze following behavior did not vary with autistic-like traits. These results suggest that deficient eye gaze following behavior is part of the broader autism phenotype for males, but may not be a part of the female autism phenotype.
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