Social attention to activities in children and adults with autism spectrum disorder: effects of context and age.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diminished visual monitoring of faces and activities of others is an early feature of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It is uncertain whether deficits in activity monitoring, identified using a homogeneous set of stimuli, persist throughout the lifespan in ASD, and thus, whether they could serve as a biological indicator ("biomarker") of ASD. We investigated differences in visual attention during activity monitoring in children and adult participants with autism compared to a control group of participants without autism.

Methods

Eye movements of participants with autism (n = 122; mean age [SD] = 14.5 [8.0] years) and typically developing (TD) controls (n = 40, age = 16.4 [13.3] years) were recorded while they viewed a series of videos depicting two female actors c

SUBMITTER: Kaliukhovich DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7574440 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature