Visual preference for social vs. non-social images in young children with autism spectrum disorders. An eye tracking study.

Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are associated to social attention (SA) impairments. A gaze bias to non-social objects over faces has been proposed as an early marker of ASD. This bias may be related to the concomitant circumscribed interests (CI), which question the role of competing objects in thi...

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Autores principales:	Julia Vacas, Adoración Antolí, Araceli Sánchez-Raya, Carolina Pérez-Dueñas, Fátima Cuadrado
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:1b6634a942484aa080e758239ca2e78d2021-12-02T20:07:15ZVisual preference for social vs. non-social images in young children with autism spectrum disorders. An eye tracking study.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0252795https://doaj.org/article/1b6634a942484aa080e758239ca2e78d2021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252795https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are associated to social attention (SA) impairments. A gaze bias to non-social objects over faces has been proposed as an early marker of ASD. This bias may be related to the concomitant circumscribed interests (CI), which question the role of competing objects in this atypical visual behavior. The aim of this study was to compare visual attention patterns to social and non-social images in young children with ASD and matched typical controls (N = 36; age range 41-73 months) assessing the role of emotion in facial stimuli and the type of competing object. A paired preference task was designed pairing happy, angry, and neutral faces with two types of objects (related or not related to autism CI). Eye tracking data were collected, and three indexes were considered as dependent variables: prioritization (attentional orientation), preference, and duration (sustained attention). Results showed that both groups had similar visual pattern to faces (prioritization, more attention and longer visits to faces paired with objects non-related to their CI); however, the ASD group attended to faces significantly less than controls. Children with ASD showed an emotional bias (late orientation to angry faces and typical preference for happy faces). Finally, objects related to their CI captured attention in both groups, significantly reducing SA in children with ASD. Atypical SA is present in young children with ASD regardless the competing non-social object. Identifying strengths and difficulties in SA in this population may have substantial repercussion for early diagnosis, intervention, and ultimately prognosis.Julia VacasAdoración AntolíAraceli Sánchez-RayaCarolina Pérez-DueñasFátima CuadradoPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 6, p e0252795 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Julia Vacas Adoración Antolí Araceli Sánchez-Raya Carolina Pérez-Dueñas Fátima Cuadrado Visual preference for social vs. non-social images in young children with autism spectrum disorders. An eye tracking study.
description	Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are associated to social attention (SA) impairments. A gaze bias to non-social objects over faces has been proposed as an early marker of ASD. This bias may be related to the concomitant circumscribed interests (CI), which question the role of competing objects in this atypical visual behavior. The aim of this study was to compare visual attention patterns to social and non-social images in young children with ASD and matched typical controls (N = 36; age range 41-73 months) assessing the role of emotion in facial stimuli and the type of competing object. A paired preference task was designed pairing happy, angry, and neutral faces with two types of objects (related or not related to autism CI). Eye tracking data were collected, and three indexes were considered as dependent variables: prioritization (attentional orientation), preference, and duration (sustained attention). Results showed that both groups had similar visual pattern to faces (prioritization, more attention and longer visits to faces paired with objects non-related to their CI); however, the ASD group attended to faces significantly less than controls. Children with ASD showed an emotional bias (late orientation to angry faces and typical preference for happy faces). Finally, objects related to their CI captured attention in both groups, significantly reducing SA in children with ASD. Atypical SA is present in young children with ASD regardless the competing non-social object. Identifying strengths and difficulties in SA in this population may have substantial repercussion for early diagnosis, intervention, and ultimately prognosis.
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author	Julia Vacas Adoración Antolí Araceli Sánchez-Raya Carolina Pérez-Dueñas Fátima Cuadrado
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title	Visual preference for social vs. non-social images in young children with autism spectrum disorders. An eye tracking study.
title_short	Visual preference for social vs. non-social images in young children with autism spectrum disorders. An eye tracking study.
title_full	Visual preference for social vs. non-social images in young children with autism spectrum disorders. An eye tracking study.
title_fullStr	Visual preference for social vs. non-social images in young children with autism spectrum disorders. An eye tracking study.
title_full_unstemmed	Visual preference for social vs. non-social images in young children with autism spectrum disorders. An eye tracking study.
title_sort	visual preference for social vs. non-social images in young children with autism spectrum disorders. an eye tracking study.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/1b6634a942484aa080e758239ca2e78d
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Visual preference for social vs. non-social images in young children with autism spectrum disorders. An eye tracking study.

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