Unique dynamic profiles of social attention in autistic females.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social attention affords learning opportunities across development and may contribute to individual differences in developmental trajectories, such as between male and female individuals, and in neurodevelopmental conditions, such as autism.

Methods

Using eye-tracking, we measured social attention in a large cohort of autistic (n = 123) and nonautistic females (n = 107), and autistic (n = 330) and nonautistic males (n = 204), aged 6-30 years. Using mixed Growth Curve Analysis, we modelled sex and diagnostic effects on the temporal dynamics of proportional looking time to three types of social stimuli (lean-static, naturalistic-static, and naturalistic-dynamic) and examined the link between individual differences and dimensional social and nonsocial autistic traits

SUBMITTER: Del Bianco T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9796530 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature