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- Title
Visual Attention to Dynamic Emotional Faces in Adults on the Autism Spectrum.
- Authors
Macinska, Sylwia; Lindsay, Shane; Jellema, Tjeerd
- Abstract
Using eye-tracking, we studied allocation of attention to faces where the emotional expression and eye-gaze dynamically changed in an ecologically-valid manner. We tested typically-developed (TD) adults low or high in autistic-like traits (Experiment 1), and adults with high-functioning autism (HFA; Experiment 2). All groups fixated more on the eyes than on any of the other facial area, regardless of emotion and gaze direction, though the HFA group fixated less on the eyes and more on the nose than TD controls. The sequence of dynamic facial changes affected the groups similarly, with reduced attention to the eyes and increased attention to the mouth. The results suggest that dynamic emotional face scanning patterns are stereotypical and differ only modestly between TD and HFA adults.
- Subjects
AUTISM; EYE movement measurements; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; EMOTIONS; ATTENTION; ANALYSIS of variance; VISUAL perception; FACIAL expression; FACE perception; EYE movements; ADOLESCENCE; ADULTS
- Publication
Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 2024, Vol 54, Issue 6, p2211
- ISSN
0162-3257
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10803-023-05979-8