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Unraveling the developmental dynamic of visual exploration of social interactions in autism.
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- The Diagnostic Potential of Eye Tracking to Detect Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children: A Systematic Review.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Pooled it
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- A naturalistic, non-invasive method for capturing biometric data during autism evaluations.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Sensory-based visual attention in autism: from normalization to adaptive support.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Eye-Tracking as a Screening Tool in the Early Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Modeling gaze behavior with continuous-time markov chains to investigate social attention dynamics in autism.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Bright Lights, Silent Signals: Colour-Specific Attention-Arousal Decoupling in Autistic Children Revealed by Eye-Tracking and Pupillometry.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Translational research approach to social orienting deficits in autism: the role of superior colliculus-ventral tegmental pathway.Molecular psychiatry · 2025Article
- Atypical audio-visual neural synchrony and speech processing in early autism.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2025Article
- Functional near-infrared spectroscopy characteristics in children with autism spectrum disorder under animated video modeling therapy.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Speech Reception in Young Children with Autism Is Selectively Indexed by a Neural Oscillation Coupling Anomaly.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Early alterations of large-scale brain networks temporal dynamics in young children with autism.Communications biology · 2021Article
- Attention to Face as a Predictor of Developmental Change and Treatment Outcome in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Biomedicines · 2021Article
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Abstract
Atypical deployment of social gaze is present early on in toddlers with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). Yet, studies characterizing the developmental dynamic behind it are scarce. Here, we used a data-driven method to delineate the developmental change in visual exploration of social interaction over childhood years in autism. Longitudinal eye-tracking data were acquired as children with ASD and their typically developing (TD) peers freely explored a short cartoon movie. We found divergent moment-to-moment gaze patterns in children with ASD compared to their TD peers. This divergence was particularly evident in sequences that displayed social interactions between characters and even more so in children with lower developmental and functional levels. The basic visual properties of the animated scene did not account for the enhanced divergence. Over childhood years, these differences dramatically increased to become more idiosyncratic. These findings suggest that social attention should be targeted early in clinical treatments.
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