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SynthesisJournal of autism and developmental disorders2025

Correlation Between Gaze Behaviors and Social Communication Skills of Young Autistic Children: A Meta-Analysis of Eye-Tracking Studies.

Christy D Yoon, Yan Xia, Adriana Kaori Terol, Hedda Meadan, James D Lee

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Synthesis in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Eye Tracking as a Treatment Monitoring Tool for Autism: A Multilevel Meta-Analysis.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Christy D YoonDepartment of Special Education, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1310 South Sixth Street, Champaign, IL, 61820, USA. cdyoon2@illinois.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7629-0468
Yan XiaDepartment of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1310 South Sixth Street, Champaign, IL, 61820, USA.
Adriana Kaori TerolDepartment of Special Education, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1310 South Sixth Street, Champaign, IL, 61820, USA.
Hedda MeadanDepartment of Special Education, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1310 South Sixth Street, Champaign, IL, 61820, USA.
James D LeeDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, 6901 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA, 98115, USA.

Funding

Office of Special Education Programs H325D190064
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This meta-analysis examined correlations between eye-tracking measures of gaze behaviors manifested during dynamic salient social stimuli and behavioral assessment measures of social communication skills of young autistic children. We employed a multilevel model with random effects to perform three separate meta-analyses for correlation between social communication skills and (a) all gaze behaviors, (b) gaze duration, and (c) gaze transition. Subsequently, we performed meta-regression to assess the role of four moderators, including age, continuum of naturalness of stimuli, gaze metric, and area of interest, on correlation effect sizes that were heterogeneous at the population level. A total of 111 correlation coefficients from 17 studies for 1132 young autistic children or children with high-likelihood for autism (M

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Autistic DisorderCommunicationFixation, OcularSocial BehaviorSocial SkillsChildChild, PreschoolEye-Tracking TechnologyFemaleHumansInfantMaleAutismEarly childhoodGaze behaviorsMeta-analysisSocial communication skills

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PMID38400896

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