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ArticleScientific reports2024

Feasibility of a 2-minute eye-tracking protocol to support the early identification of autism.

Lacey Chetcuti, Kandice J Varcin, Maryam Boutrus, Jodie Smith, Catherine A Bent, Andrew J O Whitehouse, Kristelle Hudry

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Article in Scientific reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Lacey ChetcutiDepartment of Psychology, Counselling and Therapy, School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Kandice J VarcinMenzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia.
Maryam BoutrusTelethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
Jodie SmithDepartment of Psychology, Counselling and Therapy, School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Catherine A BentDepartment of Psychology, Counselling and Therapy, School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Andrew J O WhitehouseTelethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
Kristelle HudryDepartment of Psychology, Counselling and Therapy, School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. k.hudry@latrobe.edu.au.
La Trobe University · AUThe University of Western Australia · AUThe Kids Research Institute Australia · AU

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We tested the potential for Gazefinder eye-tracking to support early autism identification, including feasible use with infants, and preliminary concurrent validity of trial-level gaze data against clinical assessment scores. We embedded the ~ 2-min 'Scene 1S4' protocol within a comprehensive clinical assessment for 54 consecutively-referred, clinically-indicated infants (prematurity-corrected age 9-14 months). Alongside % tracking rate as a broad indicator of feasible assessment/data capture, we report infant gaze data to pre-specified regions of interest (ROI) across four trial types and associations with scores on established clinical/behavioural tools. Most infants tolerated Gazefinder eye-tracking well, returning high overall % tracking rate. As a group, infants directed more gaze towards social vs. non-social (or more vs. less socially-salient) ROIs within trials. Behavioural autism features were correlated with increased gaze towards non-social/geometry (vs. social/people) scenes. No associations were found for gaze directed to ROIs within other stimulus types. Notably, there were no associations between developmental/cognitive ability or adaptive behaviour with gaze towards any ROI. Gazefinder assessment seems highly feasible with clinically-indicated infants, and the people vs. geometry stimuli show concurrent predictive validity for behavioural autism features. Aggregating data across the ~ 2-min autism identification protocol might plausibly offer greater utility than stimulus-level analysis alone.

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Autism Spectrum DisorderAutistic DisorderEye-Tracking TechnologyFeasibility StudiesHumansInfant

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PMID38429348
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