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ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2026

Oculomotor Function in Children and Adolescents with Autism, ADHD or Co-occurring Autism and ADHD.

Elana J Forbes, Jeggan Tiego, Joshua Langmead, Kathryn E Unruh, Matthew W Mosconi, Amy Finlay, Kathryn Kallady, Lydia Maclachlan, Mia Moses, Kai Cappel and 8 more

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Article in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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18 authors.

Elana J ForbesSchool of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, 18 Innovation Walk, Melbourne, VIC, 3800, Australia. elana.forbes@monash.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5412-738X
Jeggan TiegoSchool of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, 18 Innovation Walk, Melbourne, VIC, 3800, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7835-6398
Joshua LangmeadSchool of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, 18 Innovation Walk, Melbourne, VIC, 3800, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0001-7801-992X
Kathryn E UnruhLife Span Institute and Kansas Center for Autism Research and Training, The University of Kansas, 12610 Quivira Rd #270, Overland Park, KS, 66213, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6745-5550
Matthew W MosconiLife Span Institute and Kansas Center for Autism Research and Training, The University of Kansas, 12610 Quivira Rd #270, Overland Park, KS, 66213, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1981-6777
Amy FinlaySchool of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, 18 Innovation Walk, Melbourne, VIC, 3800, Australia.
Kathryn KalladySchool of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, 18 Innovation Walk, Melbourne, VIC, 3800, Australia.
Lydia MaclachlanSchool of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, 18 Innovation Walk, Melbourne, VIC, 3800, Australia.
Mia MosesSchool of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, 18 Innovation Walk, Melbourne, VIC, 3800, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5127-0447
Kai CappelSchool of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, 18 Innovation Walk, Melbourne, VIC, 3800, Australia.
Rachael KnottSchool of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, 18 Innovation Walk, Melbourne, VIC, 3800, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0903-2650
Tracey ChauSchool of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, 18 Innovation Walk, Melbourne, VIC, 3800, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6867-3533
Vishnu Priya Mohanakumar SindhuSchool of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, 18 Innovation Walk, Melbourne, VIC, 3800, Australia.
Alessio BellatoSchool of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1PS, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5330-6773
Madeleine J GroomSchool of Medicine, Academic Unit of Mental Health & Clinical Neurosciences, Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham, Triumph Road, Nottingham, NG7 2TU, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5182-518X
Rebecca KerestesSchool of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, 18 Innovation Walk, Melbourne, VIC, 3800, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1298-9904
Mark A Bellgrove *School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, 18 Innovation Walk, Melbourne, VIC, 3800, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0186-8349
Beth P Johnson *School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, 18 Innovation Walk, Melbourne, VIC, 3800, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6336-0092

Funding

The funding sources are Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) EPCD000002, Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship, National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Senior Research Fellowship 1154378, NHMRC Investigator Grant L2, The funding sources are Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) EPCD000002, Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship, National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Senior Research Fellowship 1154378, NHMRC Investigator Grant L2,
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oculomotor characteristics, including accuracy, timing, and sensorimotor processing, are considered sensitive intermediate phenotypes for understanding the etiology of neurodevelopmental conditions, such as autism and ADHD. Oculomotor characteristics have predominantly been studied separately in autism and ADHD. Despite the high rates of co-occurrence between these conditions, only one study has investigated oculomotor processes among those with co-occurring autism + ADHD. Four hundred and five (n = 405; 226 males) Australian children and adolescents aged 4 to 18 years (M = 9.64 years; SD = 3.20 years) with ADHD (n = 64), autism (n = 66), autism + ADHD (n = 146), or neurotypical individuals (n = 129) were compared across four different oculomotor tasks: visually guided saccade, anti-saccade, sinusoidal pursuit and step-ramp pursuit. Confirmatory analyses were conducted using separate datasets acquired from the University of Nottingham UK (n = 17 autism, n = 22 ADHD, n = 32 autism + ADHD, n = 30 neurotypical) and University of Kansas USA (n = 29 autism, n = 41 neurotypical). Linear mixed effect models controlling for sex, age and family revealed that children and adolescents with autism + ADHD exhibited increased variability in the accuracy of the final saccadic eye position compared to neurotypical children and adolescents. Autistic children and adolescents demonstrated a greater number of catch-up saccades during step-ramp pursuit compared to neurotypical children and adolescents. These findings suggest that select differences in saccadic precision are unique to autistic individuals with co-occurring ADHD, indicating that measuring basic sensorimotor processes may be useful for parsing neurodevelopment and clinical heterogeneity in autism.

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Attention Deficit Disorder with HyperactivityAutistic DisorderSaccadesAdolescentChildChild, PreschoolFemaleHumansMaleADHDAutismEndophenotypeNeurodevelopmentOculomotor Control

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PMID39856431
PMCPMC13222194

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