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  • Neuroscience
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Autism Research

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  • Visual face recognition is crucial for social interaction.
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is often associated with challenges in face processing.
  • Eye movements are fundamental to visual encoding and recognition of faces.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how visual processing strategies, specifically eye movement patterns, support face encoding and recognition in autistic and neurotypical (NT) individuals.
  • To compare the eye movement dynamics during face recognition tasks between autistic and NT adolescents.

Main Methods:

  • Employed hidden Markov modeling to analyze spatiotemporal dynamics of eye movements.
  • Assessed eye movement patterns in autistic (n=15) and neurotypical (n=17) adolescents.
  • Utilized a face identity recognition task.

Main Results:

  • Identified distinct eye movement patterns, including focused and exploratory strategies, across all participants.
  • Autistic individuals maintained consistent eye movement patterns throughout encoding and recognition phases.
  • Neurotypical individuals shifted to a more exploratory visual processing strategy during the recognition phase.

Conclusions:

  • Autistic individuals exhibit a lack of modulation in visual processing strategies during face encoding and recognition.
  • This inflexibility in visual strategy may contribute to less efficient face processing in autism.
  • Findings highlight differences in visual attention and processing strategies in autism.