ArticleMolecular autism2020
Social attention to activities in children and adults with autism spectrum disorder: effects of context and age.
Article in Molecular autism, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02668991 (A Study to Assess the Janssen Autism Knowledge Engine in Children and Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder and in a Normally Developing Cohort), which is not on this map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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A Study to Assess the Janssen Autism Knowledge Engine in Children and Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder and in a Normally Developing Cohort
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.
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- A multi-scale mathematical framework for modelling the dynamic nature of autism spectrum disorder symptoms: integrating predictive coding, information theory, and network principles.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Neuroimaging Evidence of Facial Emotion Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Meta-Analysis of Functional Neuroimaging Studies.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Automatic Speech-Gesture Integration in Autistic Children: The Role of Gesture Semantic Activation.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
- Autistic preschoolers display reduced attention orientation for competition but intact facilitation from a parallel competitor: Eye-tracking and behavioral data.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2024Article
- [Machine learning algorithms for identifying autism spectrum disorder through eye-tracking in different intention videos].Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatrics · 2024Article
- ECG Recordings as Predictors of Very Early Autism Likelihood: A Machine Learning Approach.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Level of Attention to Motherese Speech as an Early Marker of Autism Spectrum Disorder.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Unique dynamic profiles of social attention in autistic females.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2022Article
- Large scale validation of an early-age eye-tracking biomarker of an autism spectrum disorder subtype.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Visual Exploration and Observation of Real-Life Interactions Between Children with ASD and Service Dogs.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2021Article
- Diminished emotion recognition with reduced face gaze in complex situation in individuals with broad autism phenotype.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
backgroundDiminished visual monitoring of faces and activities of others is an early feature of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It is uncertain whether deficits in activity monitoring, identified using a homogeneous set of stimuli, persist throughout the lifespan in ASD, and thus, whether they could serve as a biological indicator ("biomarker") of ASD. We investigated differences in visual attention during activity monitoring in children and adult participants with autism compared to a control group of participants without autism.
methodsEye movements of participants with autism (n = 122; mean age [SD] = 14.5 [8.0] years) and typically developing (TD) controls (n = 40, age = 16.4 [13.3] years) were recorded while they viewed a series of videos depicting two female actors conversing while interacting with their hands over a shared task. Actors either continuously focused their gaze on each other's face (mutual gaze) or on the shared activity area (shared focus). Mean percentage looking time was computed for the activity area, actors' heads, and their bodies.
resultsCompared to TD participants, participants with ASD looked longer at the activity area (mean % looking time: 58.5% vs. 53.8%, p < 0.005) but less at the heads (15.2% vs. 23.7%, p < 0.0001). Additionally, within-group differences in looking time were observed between the mutual gaze and shared focus conditions in both participants without ASD (activity: Δ = - 6.4%, p < 0.004; heads: Δ = + 3.5%, p < 0.02) and participants with ASD (bodies: Δ = + 1.6%, p < 0.002). LIMITATIONS: The TD participants were not as well characterized as the participants with ASD. Inclusion criteria regarding the cognitive ability [intelligence quotient (IQ) > 60] limited the ability to include individuals with substantial intellectual disability.
conclusionsDifferences in attention to faces could constitute a feature discriminative between individuals with and without ASD across the lifespan, whereas between-group differences in looking at activities may shift with development. These findings may have applications in the search for underlying biological indicators specific to ASD. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov identifier NCT02668991.
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