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Gaze Following in Children with Autism: Do High Interest Objects Boost Performance?
- Source :
- Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders; Mar2017, Vol. 47 Issue 3, p626-635, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- This study tested whether including objects perceived as highly interesting by children with autism during a gaze following task would result in increased first fixation durations on the target objects. It has previously been found that autistic children differentiate less between an object another person attends to and unattended objects in terms of this measure. Less differentiation between attended and unattended objects in ASD as compared to control children was found in a baseline condition, but not in the high interest condition. However, typically developing children differentiated less between attended and unattended objects in the high interest condition than in the baseline condition, possibly reflecting reduced influence of gaze cues on object processing when objects themselves are highly interesting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ANALYSIS of variance
ATTENTION
AUTISM
BEHAVIORAL assessment
EXPERIMENTAL design
EYE movements
INTELLIGENCE tests
PROBABILITY theory
PSYCHOLOGICAL tests
REACTION time
RESEARCH funding
T-test (Statistics)
VIDEO recording
VISUAL perception
PROMPTS (Psychology)
REPEATED measures design
DATA analysis software
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
EYE movement measurements
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01623257
- Volume :
- 47
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 121840921
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-016-2955-6