ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2020
Examining How Types of Object Distractors Distinctly Compete for Facial Attention in Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Eye Tracking.
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- Evaluation of the Social Attention Hypothesis: Do Children with Autism Prefer to See Objects Rather than People?Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Reduced Attentional Capture by Topological Changes in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Evidence for a Perceptual Deficit.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2025Article
- Attention toward Social and Non-Social Stimuli in Preschool Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Paired Preference Eye-Tracking Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Social attention patterns of autistic and non-autistic adults when viewing real versus reel people.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2023Article
- Evidence of a reduced role for circumscribed interests in the social attention patterns of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Article
- Large scale validation of an early-age eye-tracking biomarker of an autism spectrum disorder subtype.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Social motivation theory states that individuals with ASD find social stimuli less rewarding (Chevallier et al. in Trends Cognit Sci 16(4):231-239, 2012). An alternative theory suggests that competition from circumscribed interests (CIs) may better account for diminished social attention (Sasson et al. in Autism Res 1(1):31-42, 2008). This study evaluated both theories in children diagnosed with ASD (n = 16) and a group of TD children (n = 20) using eye tracking and demonstrated that distractor type only impacted the proportion of dwell time on faces in the TD group, but not the ASD group. These results provide support for the social motivation theory because gaze duration for faces among children with ASD was diminished regardless of whether the non-social stimuli presented was a CI or control object.
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