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SUBMITTER: Kleberg JL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6450841 | biostudies-other | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Journal of autism and developmental disorders 20190401 4
We studied visual attention to emotional faces in 10-month-old infant siblings of children with ASD (ASD-sibs; N = 70) and a siblings of typically developing children (N = 29) using static stimuli. Contrary to our predictions, we found no evidence for atypical gaze behavior in ASD-sibs when boys and girls were analyzed together. However, a sex difference was found in ASD-sibs' visual attention to the mouth. Male ASD-sibs looked more at the mouth across emotions compared to male controls and fema ...[more]