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Enhanced use of gaze cue in a face-following task after brief trial experience in individuals with autism spectrum disorder
- Source :
- Scientific Reports, Scientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Eye movements toward sequentially presented face images with or without gaze cues were recorded to investigate whether those with ASD, in comparison to their typically developing (TD) peers, could prospectively perform the task according to gaze cues. Line-drawn face images were sequentially presented for one second each on a laptop PC display, and the face images shifted from side-to-side and up-and-down. In the gaze cue condition, the gaze of the face image was directed to the position where the next face would be presented. Although the participants with ASD looked less at the eye area of the face image than their TD peers, they could perform comparable smooth gaze shift to the gaze cue of the face image in the gaze cue condition. This appropriate gaze shift in the ASD group was more evident in the second half of trials in than in the first half, as revealed by the mean proportion of fixation time in the eye area to valid gaze data in the early phase (during face image presentation) and the time to first fixation on the eye area. These results suggest that individuals with ASD may benefit from the short-period trial experiment by enhancing the usage of gaze cue.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Eye Movements
InformationSystems_INFORMATIONINTERFACESANDPRESENTATION(e.g.,HCI)
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Science
ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION
Fixation time
Fixation, Ocular
Audiology
Article
Task (project management)
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
InformationSystems_MODELSANDPRINCIPLES
medicine
Humans
Psychology
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Attention
050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology
Multidisciplinary
05 social sciences
Eye movement
medicine.disease
Gaze
Autism spectrum disorder
Face (geometry)
Face
Fixation (visual)
Medicine
Female
Cues
Early phase
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Neuroscience
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20452322
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Scientific reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3fb84169657ce9fac7eb77612da43c9b