Perceptual experience is influenced both by incoming sensory information and prior
knowledge about the world, a concept recently formalised within Bayesian decision theory …

During social interactions, people's eyes convey a wealth of information about their direction
of attention and their emotional and mental states. This review aims to provide a …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Autistic-spectrum conditions and psychotic-spectrum conditions (mainly schizophrenia,
bipolar disorder, and major depression) represent two major suites of disorders of human …

Several recent behavioral and neuroimaging studies have documented an impairment in
face processing in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). It remains unknown …

viduals with autism may be very interested in social interaction, but their odd and eccentric
social styles and limited capacities to understand or anticipate others' internal emotional …

Whilst joint attention (JA) impairments in autism have been widely studied, little is known
about the early development of gaze following, a precursor to establishing JA. We employed …