Eye tracking demonstrates the influence of autistic traits on social attention in a community sample from India.

ABSTRACT: The ability to attend to social stimuli is fundamental for processing social cues and shaping social behavior, yet cultural variability in this capacity remains relatively unexplored. Social attention is typically tested using preferential-looking paradigms in labs, which have demonstrated that autistic individuals attend less to social stimuli. Such studies are limited, by the fact that they have almost all been conducted in Western Europe and the USA. To address this gap, our objective was to test the cultural generalizability of these results by investigating whether autistic symptoms are negatively associated with social attention in a traditionally understudied sample: Indian adults. Additionally, we tested the specificity of this relation by investigating whether a similar associatio

SUBMITTER: Nair KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12569073 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature