Gaze performance during face-to-face communication: A live eye tracking study of typical children and children with autism
Gaze performance during face-to-face communication: A live eye tracking study of typical children and children with autism
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10.1016/j.rasd.2015.06.007
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发表时间：
2015-09-01
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2.5
通讯作者：
Falck-Ytter, Terje
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作者：
Falck-Ytter, Terje
自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）的特征是社会沟通障碍，对他人面孔的有限注意力被认为是一个重要的潜在机制。在这里，非侵入性眼动跟踪技术被用来量化在ASD儿童（n = 13，6岁）和年龄和智商匹配的神经典型儿童（n = 27，6岁）面对面交流时看着另一个人的脸所花的时间。我们发现，在一个高生态相关性的背景下-听一个成年人讲一个孩子的故事-自闭症儿童表现出明显减少的倾向，看看成年人的脸。在典型的儿童和成人之间的互动中，两个人对对方面部的注视量是一致的。当ASD组与成人互动时，没有发现这种关系。尽管在讲故事的背景下存在这些差异，我们也观察到，社会期待的相似性并没有推广到另一个更结构化的背景下，这意味着社会期待不能被认为是从根本上破坏自闭症儿童。(C)2015爱思唯尔有限公司版权所有。
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is characterized by socio-communicative impairments, and limited attention to other people's faces is thought to be an important underlying mechanism. Here, non-invasive eye-tracking technology was used to quantify the amount of time spent looking at another person's face during face-to-face communication in children with ASD (n = 13, age 6 years) and age and IQ-matched neurotypical children (n = 27, 6 years). We found that in one context of high ecological relevance - listening to an adult telling a children's story - children with ASD showed a markedly reduced tendency to look at the adult's face. In interactions between typical children and the adult, the amount of gaze to the other's face aligned between the two individuals. No such relation was found when the ASD group interacted with the adult. Despite these differences in the storytelling context, we also observed that social looking atypicalities did not generalize to another and more structured context, implying that social looking cannot not be considered fundamentally disrupted in children with ASD. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.