Effects of social complexity and gender on social and non-social attention in male and female autistic children: A comparison of four eye-tracking paradigms.

Autor: Putnam OC; Division of Health Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA., Sasson N; School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, USA., Parish-Morris J; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.; Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA., Harrop C; Division of Health Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.; TEACCH Autism Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research [Autism Res] 2023 Feb; Vol. 16 (2), pp. 315-326. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Nov 21.
DOI: 10.1002/aur.2851
Abstrakt: Eye tracking has long been used to characterize differences in social attention between autistic and non-autistic children, but recent work has shown that these patterns may vary widely according to the biological sex of the participants and the social complexity and gender-typicality of the eye tracking stimuli (e.g., barbies vs. transformers). To better understand effects of sex, social complexity, and object gender-typicality on social and non-social gaze behavior in autism, we compared the visual attention patterns of 67 autistic (ASD) and non-autistic (NA) males (M) and females (F) (ASD M = 21; ASD F = 18; NA M = 14; NA F = 14) across four eye tracking paradigms varying in social complexity and object gender-typicality. We found consistency across paradigms in terms of overall attention and attention to social stimuli, but attention to objects varied when paradigms considered gender in their stimulus design. Children attended more to gendered objects, particularly when the gender-typicality of the object matched their assigned sex. These results demonstrate that visual social attention in autism is affected by interactions between a child's biological sex, social scene complexity, and object gender-typicality and have broad implications for the design and interpretation of eye tracking studies.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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