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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder defined and diagnosed by core deficits in social communication and the presence of restricted and repetitive behaviors. Two areas of active ASD research include visual social attention and face processing. The visual social attention literature demonstrates that individuals with ASD, across all developmental stages, exhibit decreased attention to salient social stimuli. Research on face processing suggests deficits in this domain in ASD, but includes many mixed findings regarding the nature and extent of these differences. The existing literature in these areas points to the need for additional research that carefully characterizes visual social attention to faces, optimizing precision in both the spatial and temporal domains, and assessing its functional role in a specific task or context (eg, face identification). One way to achieve this is to focus on the most …