Is Anyone Looking at Me? Direct Gaze Detection in Children with and without Autism

Autor/inn/en	Senju, Atsushi; Kikuchi, Yukiko; Hasegawa, Toshikazu; Tojo, Yoshikuni; Osanai, Hiroo
Titel	Is Anyone Looking at Me? Direct Gaze Detection in Children with and without Autism
Quelle	In: Brain and Cognition, 67 (2008) 2, S.127-139 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-2626
DOI	10.1016/j.bandc.2007.12.001
Schlagwörter	Nonverbal Communication; Autism; Eye Movements; Models; Children; Child Development; Human Body; Identification; Experiments + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Autismus; Augenbewegung; Analogiemodell; Child; Kind; Kinder; Kindesentwicklung; Menschlicher Körper; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Erprobung
Abstract	Atypical processing of eye contact is one of the significant characteristics of individuals with autism, but the mechanism underlying atypical direct gaze processing is still unclear. This study used a visual search paradigm to examine whether the facial context would affect direct gaze detection in children with autism. Participants were asked to detect target gazes presented among distracters with different gaze directions. The target gazes were either direct gaze or averted gaze, which were either presented alone (Experiment 1) or within facial context (Experiment 2). As with the typically developing children, the children with autism, were faster and more efficient to detect direct gaze than averted gaze, whether or not the eyes were presented alone or within faces. In addition, face inversion distorted efficient direct gaze detection in typically developing children, but not in children with autism. These results suggest that children with autism use featural information to detect direct gaze, whereas typically developing children use configural information to detect direct gaze. (Contains 4 tables and 4 figures.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10