Simulating interaction: using gaze-contingent eye-tracking to measure the reward value of social signals in toddlers with and without autism

Autor: Vernetti A., Senju A., Charman T., Johnson M. H., Gliga T., Baron-Cohen S., Bedford R., Bolton P., Cheung H. M. C., Davies K., Elsabbagh M., Fernandes J., Gammer I., Guiraud J., Liew M., Maris H., O'Hara L., Pasco G., Pickles A., Ribeiro H., Salomone E., Tucker L., Yemane F.
Přispěvatelé: Vernetti, A, Senju, A, Charman, T, Johnson, M, Gliga, T, Baron-Cohen, S, Bedford, R, Bolton, P, Cheung, H, Davies, K, Elsabbagh, M, Fernandes, J, Gammer, I, Guiraud, J, Liew, M, Maris, H, O'Hara, L, Pasco, G, Pickles, A, Ribeiro, H, Salomone, E, Tucker, L, Yemane, F
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
Předmět:
Male
Social inhibition
genetic structures
Autism Spectrum Disorder
High-risk siblings
social motivation
Smiling
Social orienting
Developmental psychology
psyc
0302 clinical medicine
Attention
10. No inequality
high-risk siblings
Communication
lcsh:QP351-495
05 social sciences
digestive
oral
and skin physiology

gaze-contingency
Gaze-contingency
Autism spectrum disorder
Child
Preschool

High-risk sibling
Female
Psychology
Social motivation
050104 developmental & child psychology
Risk
Cognitive Neuroscience
autism spectrum disorder
Fixation
Ocular

behavioral disciplines and activities
Article
03 medical and health sciences
Reward
mental disorders
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Interpersonal Relations
Unpredictability
Motivation
medicine.disease
Gaze
Social relation
Play and Playthings
lcsh:Neurophysiology and neuropsychology
unpredictability
Autism
Eye tracking
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Zdroj: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Vernetti, A, Senju, A, Charman, T, Johnson, M H & Gliga, T 2017, ' Simulating interaction : using gaze-contingent eye-tracking to measure the reward value of social signals in toddlers with and without autism ', Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2017.08.004
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Vol 29, Iss, Pp 21-29 (2018)
ISSN: 1878-9293
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2017.08.004
Popis: Highlights • Toddlers with ASD show typical social orienting and positive facial expressions in response to predictable social stimuli. • Variable social stimuli provoke an atypical pattern of reward-seeking behaviour in toddlers with ASD. • Simulated social interaction, made possible by gaze-contingent eye-tracking, shows great potential to probe the conditions under which impaired social interaction emerges in ASD.
Several accounts have been proposed to explain difficulties with social interaction in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), amongst which atypical social orienting, decreased social motivation or difficulties with understanding the regularities driving social interaction. This study uses gaze-contingent eye-tracking to tease apart these accounts by measuring reward related behaviours in response to different social videos. Toddlers at high or low familial risk for ASD took part in this study at age 2 and were categorised at age 3 as low risk controls (LR), high-risk with no ASD diagnosis (HR-no ASD), or with a diagnosis of ASD (HR-ASD). When the on-demand social interaction was predictable, all groups, including the HR-ASD group, looked longer and smiled more towards a person greeting them compared to a mechanical Toy (Condition 1) and also smiled more towards a communicative over a non-communicative person (Condition 2). However, all groups, except the HR-ASD group, selectively oriented towards a person addressing the child in different ways over an invariant social interaction (Condition 3). These findings suggest that social interaction is intrinsically rewarding for individuals with ASD, but the extent to which it is sought may be modulated by the specific variability of naturalistic social interaction.
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