Title |
Atypical integration of social cues for orienting to gaze direction in adults with autism
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Published in |
Molecular Autism, January 2015
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DOI | 10.1186/2040-2392-6-5 |
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Authors |
Chris Ashwin, Jari K Hietanen, Simon Baron-Cohen |
Abstract |
Gaze direction provides important information about social attention, and people tend to reflexively orient in the direction others are gazing. Perceiving the gaze of others relies on the integration of multiple social cues, which include perceptual information related to the eyes, gaze direction, head position, and body orientation of others. Autism spectrum conditions (ASC) are characterised by social and emotional deficits, including atypical gaze behaviour. The social-emotional deficits may emerge from a reliance on perceptual information involving details and features, at the expense of more holistic processing, which includes the integration of features. While people with ASC are often able to physically compute gaze direction and show intact reflexive orienting to others' gaze, they show deficits in reading mental states from the eyes. |
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India | 1 | 25% |
Canada | 1 | 25% |
Unknown | 2 | 50% |
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Scientists | 2 | 50% |
Members of the public | 1 | 25% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 25% |
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Japan | 2 | 1% |
Italy | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 131 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
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Student > Master | 24 | 18% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 23 | 17% |
Student > Bachelor | 20 | 15% |
Researcher | 16 | 12% |
Student > Postgraduate | 9 | 7% |
Other | 21 | 16% |
Unknown | 21 | 16% |
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Psychology | 69 | 51% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 8 | 6% |
Neuroscience | 8 | 6% |
Social Sciences | 7 | 5% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 7 | 5% |
Other | 10 | 7% |
Unknown | 25 | 19% |