Social scene perception in autism spectrum disorder: An eye-tracking and pupillometric study
Autor: | Carina Gillberg, Nouchine Hadjikhani, Morgan Frost-Karlsson, Jakob Åsberg Johnels, Carmela Miniscalco, Christopher Gillberg, Eva Billstedt, Martyna A Galazka |
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Rok vydání: | 2019 |
Předmět: |
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genetic structures Adolescent Eye Movements Autism Spectrum Disorder media_common.quotation_subject 050105 experimental psychology Psykiatri 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Perception mental disorders Pupillary response medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Attention Autism spectrum disorder ESSENCE pupillometry social processing gaze aversion Child Eye Movement Measurements media_common Psychiatry 05 social sciences Behavioral pattern Pupil medicine.disease Gaze Clinical Psychology Neurology Social Perception Autism Eye tracking Female Neurology (clinical) Psychology Arousal 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Pupillometry Cognitive psychology |
Zdroj: | Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology. 41(10) |
ISSN: | 1744-411X |
Popis: | Typically, developing humans innately place subjective value on social information and orient attention to it. This can be shown through tracking of gaze patterns and pupil size, the latter of which taps into an individuals cognitive engagement and affective arousal. People with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) present with atypical social, communicative and behavioral patterns, but underlying substrates of these behavioral differences remain unclear. Moreover, due to high comorbidity with other neurodevelopmental disorders, it is often difficult to distinguish which differences are distinctive to ASD. In this study, a group of 35 adolescents and young adults with neurodevelopmental disorders were tested to investigate the processing of social and non-social scenes in individuals who meet the diagnostic criteria for autism and those who do not. Eye tracking and pupillometry measures were collected while participants observed images of tightly controlled natural scenes with or without a human being. Contrary to individuals without autism diagnosis, participants with autism did not show greater pupillary response to images with a human. Participants with autism were slower to fixate on social elements in the social scenes, and this latency metric correlated with clinical measures of poor social functioning. The results confirm the clinical relevance of eye-tracking and pupillometric indices in the field of ASD. We discuss the clinical implications of the results and propose that analysis of changes in visual attention and physiological level to social stimuli might be an integral part of a neurodevelopmental assessment. Funding Agencies|Stena Foundation |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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