Shaffer Rebecca C, Pedapati Ernest V, Shic Frederick, Gaietto Kristina, Bowers Katherine, Wink Logan K, Erickson Craig A
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, MLC 4002, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA.
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2017 Feb;47(2):506-513. doi: 10.1007/s10803-016-2975-2.
In this study, we present an eye-tracking paradigm, adapted from previous work with toddlers, for assessing social-interaction looking preferences in youth ages 5-17 with ASD and typically-developing controls (TDC). Videos of children playing together (Social Scenes, SS) were presented side-by-side with animated geometric shapes (GS). Participants with ASD demonstrated reduced SS preferences compared to TDC, results also represented continuously by associations between higher SS preferences and fewer social difficulties across the combined sample. Exploratory analyses identified associations between increased SS preferences and higher Vineland Daily Living Skills in ASD and suggested SS preferences in TDC females might drive ASD versus TDC between-group differences. These findings describe potentially sex-linked couplings between preferences for social information and social functioning in school-aged children.
在本研究中，我们提出了一种眼动追踪范式，该范式改编自先前针对幼儿的研究，用于评估5至17岁患有自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）的青少年以及发育正常的对照组（TDC）在社交互动中的注视偏好。儿童一起玩耍的视频（社交场景，SS）与动画几何形状（GS）并排呈现。与TDC相比，患有ASD的参与者表现出对SS的偏好降低，在合并样本中，更高的SS偏好与更少的社交困难之间的关联也持续体现了这一结果。探索性分析确定了在ASD中，SS偏好增加与更高的《温兰德日常生活技能量表》得分之间的关联，并表明TDC女性的SS偏好可能导致了ASD与TDC之间的组间差异。这些发现描述了学龄儿童对社交信息的偏好与社交功能之间潜在的性别关联。
