Visual scanning of faces in autism

KA Pelphrey, NJ Sasson, JS Reznick, G Paul… - Journal of autism and …, 2002 - Springer
The visual scanpaths of five high-functioning adult autistic males and five adult male controls
were recorded using an infrared corneal reflection technique as they viewed photographs of …

Scan path differences and similarities during emotion perception in those with and without autism spectrum disorders

MD Rutherford, AM Towns - Journal of autism and developmental …, 2008 - Springer
Typical adults use predictable scan patterns while observing faces. Some research suggests
that people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) instead attend to eyes less, and perhaps …

Face processing in children with autism: Effects of stimulus contents and type

LL Speer, AE Cook, WM McMahon, E Clark - Autism, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent eye tracking studies of face processing have produced differing accounts of how and
whether children with autism differ from their typically developing peers. The two groups' …

Analysis of face gaze in autism using “Bubbles”

ML Spezio, R Adolphs, RSE Hurley, J Piven - Neuropsychologia, 2007 - Elsevier
One of the components of abnormal social functioning in autism is an impaired ability to
direct eye gaze onto other people's faces in social situations. Here, we investigated the …

Abnormal use of facial information in high-functioning autism

ML Spezio, R Adolphs, RSE Hurley, J Piven - Journal of autism and …, 2007 - Springer
Altered visual exploration of faces likely contributes to social cognition deficits seen in
autism. To investigate the relationship between face gaze and social cognition in autism, we …

Facial perception in autism

FR Volkmar, SS Sparrow, RD Rende… - Journal of Child …, 1989 - Wiley Online Library
Disturbances in gaze and patterns of facial interaction are prominent aspects of Social
dysfunction in autism; the nature of tilts disturbance has up to the present been unclear. This …

Patterns of visual attention to faces and objects in autism spectrum disorder

JC McPartland, SJ Webb, B Keehn… - Journal of autism and …, 2011 - Springer
This study used eye-tracking to examine visual attention to faces and objects in adolescents
with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and typical peers. Point of gaze was recorded during …

The development of face processing in autism

NJ Sasson - Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2006 - Springer
Both behavioral and neuroimaging evidence indicate that individuals with autism
demonstrate marked abnormalities in the processing of faces. These abnormalities are often …

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 …

Typical emotion processing for cartoon but not for real faces in children with autistic spectrum disorders

DB Rosset, C Rondan, D Da Fonseca, A Santos… - Journal of autism and …, 2008 - Springer
This study evaluated whether atypical face processing in autism extends from human to
cartoon faces for which they show a greater interest. Twenty children with autistic spectrum …