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 …

Social orienting and social seeking behaviors in ASD. A meta analytic investigation

N Hedger, I Dubey, B Chakrabarti - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2020 - Elsevier
Social motivation accounts of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) posit that individuals with
ASD find social stimuli less rewarding than neurotypical (NT) individuals. Behaviorally, this …

Anxiety and attentional bias in children with specific learning disorders

SL Haft, PH Duong, TC Ho, RL Hendren… - Journal of abnormal child …, 2019 - Springer
Children with specific learning disorders (SLDs) face a unique set of socio-emotional
challenges as a result of their academic difficulties. Although a higher prevalence of anxiety …

Intranasal oxytocin increases covert attention to positive social cues

G Domes, M Sibold, L Schulze, A Lischke… - Psychological …, 2013 - cambridge.org
BackgroundThe neuropeptide oxytocin (OT) has positive effects on the processing of
emotional stimuli such as facial expressions. To date, research has focused primarily on …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of induced and chronic pain on attention

DJ Moore, SM Meints, A Lazaridou, D Johnson… - The Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Pain has well-established effects on attention. At present, parallel literatures exist that have
examined the effects of experimentally induced pain and consider cognitive performance in …

Restoring effects of oxytocin on the attentional preference for faces in autism

M Kanat, I Spenthof, A Riedel, LT Van Elst… - Translational …, 2017 - nature.com
Reduced attentional preference for faces and symptoms of social anxiety are common in
autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). The neuropeptide oxytocin triggers anxiolytic functions …

Social conformity and autism spectrum disorder: A child-friendly take on a classic study

AF Yafai, D Verrier, L Reidy - Autism, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Perhaps surprisingly, given the importance of conformity as a theoretical construct in social
psychology and the profound implications autism has for social function, little research has …

A positive touch: C-tactile afferent targeted skin stimulation carries an appetitive motivational value

R Pawling, PD Trotter, FP McGlone, SC Walker - Biological Psychology, 2017 - Elsevier
The rewarding sensation of touch in affiliative interactions is hypothesised to be
underpinned by an unmyelinated system of nerve fibres called C-tactile afferents (CTs). CTs …

Efficacy of a facial emotion training program for children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders

NM Russo-Ponsaran, B Evans-Smith… - Journal of Nonverbal …, 2016 - Springer
Twenty-five high-functioning, verbal children and adolescents with autism spectrum
disorders (ASD; age range 8–15 years) who demonstrated a facial emotion recognition …

Communication deficits and avoidance of angry faces in children with autism spectrum disorder

A García-Blanco, C López-Soler, M Vento… - Research in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Understanding how emotional faces are processed is important to help
characterize the social deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Aims We examined:(i) …