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Eye Tracking Young Children with Autism
Published on: March 27, 2012
Self-monitoring of gaze in high functioning autism
Ouriel Grynszpan1, Jacqueline Nadel, Jean-Claude Martin
1CNRS USR 3246, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Bâtiment de La Force, Hôpital de La Salpêtrière, 47 Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013, Paris, France. ouriel.grynszpan@upmc.fr
Abstract:
Atypical visual behaviour has been recently proposed to account for much of social misunderstanding in autism. Using an eye-tracking system and a gaze-contingent lens display, the present study explores self-monitoring of eye motion in two conditions: free visual exploration and guided exploration via blurring the visual field except for the focal area of vision. During these conditions, thirteen students with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders (HFASD) and fourteen typical individuals were presented naturalistic and interactive social stimuli using virtual reality. Fixation data showed a weaker modulation of eye movements according to the conditions in the HFASD group, thus suggesting impairments in self-monitoring of gaze. Moreover, the gaze-contingent lens induced a visual behaviour whereby social understanding scores were correlated with the time spent gazing at faces. The device could be useful for treating gaze monitoring deficiencies in HFASD.
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