The use of the term “social attention”(SA) in the cognitive neuroscience and developmental
psychopathology literature has increased exponentially in recent years, in part motivated by …

The regularity of the physical world and the biomechanics of the human body movements
generate distributions of highly probable states that are internalized by the brain in the …

Importance In the US, children with signs of autism often experience more than 1 year of
delay before diagnosis and often experience longer delays if they are from racially …

Background In typical infant development, parents and their children jointly contribute to
establishing frequent episodes of joint attention that boost language acquisition and shape …

What determines where we look? Theories of attentional guidance hold that image features
and task demands govern fixation behavior, while differences between observers are …

Social visual engagement difficulties are hallmark early signs of autism (ASD) and are easily
quantified using eye tracking methods. However, it is unclear how these difficulties are …

Individual differences in social looking are commonly believed to reflect one single heritable
dimension tightly linked to autism. Yet, recent data suggest that in human infants, looking to …

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is associated with a diverse range of etiological processes,
including both genetic and non-genetic causes. For a plurality of individuals with ASD, it is …

To what extent do individual differences in infants' early preference for faces versus non-
facial objects reflect genetic and environmental factors? Here in a sample of 536 5-month …

The ubiquity of tool use in human life has generated multiple lines of scientific and
philosophical investigation to understand the development and expression of humans' …