Skin Conductance Responses to Another Person's Gaze in Children with Autism

Autor/inn/en	Kylliainen, Anneli; Hietanen, Jari K.
Titel	Skin Conductance Responses to Another Person's Gaze in Children with Autism
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 36 (2006) 4, S.517-525 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-006-0091-4
Schlagwörter	Responses; Children; Autism; Control Groups; Visual Stimuli; Arousal Patterns; Nonverbal Communication; Locus of Control; Attribution Theory; Correlation; Situational Tests; Attitude Measures + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Autismus; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Korrelation; Situationsansatz
Abstract	The effects of another person's gaze on physiological arousal were investigated by measuring skin conductance responses (SCR). Twelve able children with autism and 12 control children were shown face stimuli with straight gaze (eye contact) or averted gaze on a computer monitor. In children with autism, the responses to straight gaze were stronger than responses to averted gaze, whereas there was no difference in the responses to these gaze conditions in normally developing children. Thus, these results showed that eye gaze elicited differential pattern of SCR in normally developing children and in children with autism. It is possible that the enhanced arousal to eye contact may contribute to the abnormal gaze behaviour frequently reported in the context of autism. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10