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Elena J Tenenbaum1,2,3, Samantha Major4, Kimberly L H Carpenter4,5,6
1Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27705, USA. elena.tenenbaum@duke.edu.
Abstract:
Eye-tracking is often used to study attention in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Previous research has identified multiple atypical patterns of attention in children with ASD based on areas-of-interest analysis. Fewer studies have investigated gaze path, a measure which is dependent on the dynamic content of the stimulus presented. Here, rather than looking at proportions of looking time to areas of interest, we calculated mean fixations frame-by-frame in a group of typically developing children (36 to 72 months) and determined the distance from those typical fixations for 155 children with ASD (27-95 months). Findings revealed that distance from the typical scan path among the children with ASD was associated with lower communication abilities and greater ASD symptomatology.
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