Journal article
Atypical monitoring and responsiveness to goal-directed gaze in autism spectrum disorder
Experimental brain research, v 232(2), pp 695-701
Feb 2014
PMID: 24292493
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Abstract
We hypothesized that difficulty in understanding the goals of others' actions in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) might be linked to a diminished attention and responsivity to relevant social cues. Using an eye-tracking paradigm, we investigated how 24 children with ASD and 24 matched children without ASD responded to the observation of uncompleted actions without a clear target (neutral condition) versus a condition in which the actor's gaze direction indicated the target of the actions (head-turning condition). Children without ASD significantly increased their attention to the actor's face and to the action's target in the head-turning condition compared to the neutral condition, while this was not the case in the ASD group. Overall, our findings suggest a diminished monitoring and responsivity to social cues signalling goal-directedness, which might impact on the ability to understand other's action goals in young children with ASD.
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- Title
- Atypical monitoring and responsiveness to goal-directed gaze in autism spectrum disorder
- Creators
- Giacomo Vivanti - La Trobe UniversityDavid Trembath - Griffith UniversityCheryl Dissanayake - La Trobe University
- Publication Details
- Experimental brain research, v 232(2), pp 695-701
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- A.J. Drexel Autism Institute
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000330773000032
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84893862671
- Other Identifier
- 991019295311204721
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