Visual social attention in autism spectrum disorder: Insights from eye tracking studies

Q Guillon, N Hadjikhani, S Baduel, B Rogé - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2014 - Elsevier
We review different aspects of visual social attention in autism spectrum disorders (ASD)
from infancy to adulthood in light of the eye-tracking literature. We first assess the …

[HTML][HTML] Vision in autism spectrum disorders

DR Simmons, AE Robertson, LS McKay, E Toal… - Vision research, 2009 - Elsevier
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are developmental disorders which are thought primarily
to affect social functioning. However, there is now a growing body of evidence that unusual …

Mechanisms of diminished attention to eyes in autism

JM Moriuchi, A Klin, W Jones - American Journal of Psychiatry, 2017 - psychiatryonline.org
Objective: Two hypotheses, gaze aversion and gaze indifference, are commonly cited to
explain a diagnostic hallmark of autism: reduced attention to others' eyes. The two posit …

The eye contact effect: mechanisms and development

A Senju, MH Johnson - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2009 - cell.com
The 'eye contact effect'is the phenomenon that perceived eye contact with another human
face modulates certain aspects of the concurrent and/or immediately following cognitive …

Atypical attentional networks and the emergence of autism

B Keehn, RA Müller, J Townsend - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
The sociocommunicative impairments that define autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are not
present at birth but emerge gradually over the first two years of life. In typical development …

The “eye avoidance” hypothesis of autism face processing

JW Tanaka, A Sung - Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2016 - Springer
Although a growing body of research indicates that children with autism spectrum disorder
(ASD) exhibit selective deficits in their ability to recognize facial identities and expressions …

[HTML][HTML] Brain basis of human social interaction: from concepts to brain imaging

R Hari, MV Kujala - Physiological reviews, 2009 - journals.physiology.org
Modern neuroimaging provides a common platform for neuroscience and related disciplines
to explore the human brain, mind, and behavior. We base our review on the social sha** …

Neural bases of eye and gaze processing: the core of social cognition

RJ Itier, M Batty - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
Eyes and gaze are very important stimuli for human social interactions. Recent studies
suggest that impairments in recognizing face identity, facial emotions or in inferring attention …

Atypical eye contact in autism: models, mechanisms and development

A Senju, MH Johnson - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
An atypical pattern of eye contact behaviour is one of the most significant symptoms of
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Recent empirical advances have revealed the …

Social-cognitive, physiological, and neural mechanisms underlying emotion regulation impairments: Understanding anxiety in autism spectrum disorder

SW White, CA Mazefsky, GS Dichter, PH Chiu… - International Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Anxiety is one of the most common clinical problems among children, adolescents, and
adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), yet we know little about its etiology in the …