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JOURNAL OF AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
Volume 53, Issue 2, Pages 746-758Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-021-04985-y
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Autism; Chinese; Eye tracking; Face-to-face conversation; Visual fixation
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This study used an eye tracker to record the gaze behavior of Chinese children with ASD and children with typical development during a conversation. The results showed that children with ASD paid less attention to the interlocutor's mouth and whole-face and more to the background. Moreover, gaze behavior varied with the conversational topic.
Few eye tracking studies have examined how people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) visually attend during live interpersonal interaction, and none with the Chinese population. This study used an eye tracker to record the gaze behavior in 20 Chinese children with ASD and 23 children with typical development (TD) when they were engaged in a structured conversation. Results demonstrated that children with ASD looked significantly less at the interlocutor's mouth and whole-face, and more at background. Additionally, gaze behavior was found to vary with the conversational topic. Given the great variability in eye tracking findings in existing literature, future explorations might consider investigating how fundamental factors (i.e., participant's characteristics, tasks, and context) influence the gaze behavior in people with ASD.
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