ArticleScientific reports2021
Using head-mounted eye tracking to examine visual and manual exploration during naturalistic toy play in children with and without autism spectrum disorder.
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- Implementing mobile eye tracking in psychological research: A practical guide.Behavior research methods · 2024Review
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- Infant sustained attention differs by context and social content in the first 2 years of life.Developmental science · 2024Article
- Computer Vision Analysis of Caregiver-Child Interactions in Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Preliminary Report.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
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- Using functional near-infrared spectroscopy to study the early developing brain: future directions and new challenges.Neurophotonics · 2023Article
- Using head-mounted eye trackers to explore children's color preferences and perceptions of toys with different color gradients.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Towards imaging the infant brain at play.Communicative & integrative biology · 2023Article
- Reduced social attention in autism is magnified by perceptual load in naturalistic environments.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2022Article
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- Autism: The face value of eye contact.Current biology : CB · 2022Article
- Computational approaches to understanding interaction and development.Advances in child development and behavior · 2022Article
- What children with and without ASD see: Similar visual experiences with different pathways through parental attention strategies.Autism & developmental language impairmentsArticle
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Multimodal exploration of objects during toy play is important for a child's development and is suggested to be abnormal in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) due to either atypical attention or atypical action. However, little is known about how children with ASD coordinate their visual attention and manual actions during toy play. The current study aims to understand if and in what ways children with ASD generate exploratory behaviors to toys in natural, unconstrained contexts by utilizing head-mounted eye tracking to quantify moment-by-moment attention. We found no differences in how 24- to 48-mo children with and without ASD distribute their visual attention, generate manual action, or coordinate their visual and manual behaviors during toy play with a parent. Our findings suggest an intact ability and willingness of children with ASD to explore toys and suggest that context is important when studying child behavior.
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