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Visual Preference for Biological Motion in Children and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Eye-Tracking Study.

ABSTRACT: Participants with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (n = 121, mean [SD] age: 14.6 [8.0] years) and typically developing (TD) controls (n = 40, 16.4 [13.3] years) were presented with a series of videos representing biological motion on one side of a computer monitor screen and non-biological motion on the other, while their eye movements were recorded. As predicted, participants with ASD spent less overall time looking at presented stimuli than TD participants (P < 10^-3) and showed less preference for biological motion (P < 10^-5). Participants with ASD also had greater average latencies than TD participants of the first fixation on both biological (P < 0.01) and non-biological motion (P < 0.02). Findings suggest that individuals with ASD differ from TD individuals on multiple properties of eye movements and biological motion preference.

SUBMITTER: Kaliukhovich DA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8189980 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Visual Preference for Biological Motion in Children and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Eye-Tracking Study.

Kaliukhovich Dzmitry A DA Manyakov Nikolay V NV Bangerter Abigail A Ness Seth S Skalkin Andrew A Boice Matthew M Goodwin Matthew S MS Dawson Geraldine G Hendren Robert R Leventhal Bennett B Shic Frederick F Pandina Gahan G

Journal of autism and developmental disorders 20210701 7

Participants with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (n = 121, mean [SD] age: 14.6 [8.0] years) and typically developing (TD) controls (n = 40, 16.4 [13.3] years) were presented with a series of videos representing biological motion on one side of a computer monitor screen and non-biological motion on the other, while their eye movements were recorded. As predicted, participants with ASD spent less overall time looking at presented stimuli than TD participants (P < 10<sup>-3</sup>) and showed less p ...[more]

PMID: 32951157

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Visual Preference for Biological Motion in Children and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Eye-Tracking Study.

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Visual Preference for Biological Motion in Children and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Eye-Tracking Study.

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