Social attention in the wild - fixations to the eyes and autistic traits during a naturalistic interaction in a healthy sample.

ABSTRACT: Attention to social stimuli is a key component of social behavior and facilitates the development of fundamental social skills. Studies investigating social attention in neurotypical or neurodiverse populations have often relied on screen-based experiments using static images or videos, which lack the sensory richness and reciprocity present in real-life social interactions. This can possibly be attributed to the challenges one encounters when creating naturalistic experiments, such as dealing with dynamically moving areas of interest (AOIs), which require either time-intensive manual coding or restraining of participants. Here, we present findings from an experimental paradigm using unrestrained mobile eye-tracking and a face detection algorithm (MTCNN) to measure fixation rates during a

SUBMITTER: Buehler R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11615244 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature