Michelle Dawson posts
Structured cited links
Kritika Nayar, Xin Kang, Molly Winston, Patrick Wong, Molly Losh (2023). A cross-cultural study of visual attention in autism spectrum disorder. Child Neuropsychology, 29(3), 413-444. Informa UK Limited.
Abstract
= 35 control). Gaze was tracked while participants completed two narrative tasks that differed in social-emotional complexity. Proportions of fixations to face, bodies, and setting were examined across groups using linear mixed-effect models and a series of growth curve models. Cultural differences were found across tasks and groups. Both the ASD and control HK groups attended more to global contextual setting information, more to the body regions, and less toward faces of characters compared to US groups. Growth curve models indicated that these differences attenuated over time in certain stimuli. ASD-related effects were only observed in the more complex stimuli depicting characters with ambiguous facial expressions. Findings indicate a notable cultural influence on visual attention patterns in ASD, and underscore the importance of stimuli complexity in differentiating cultural versus diagnostic effects on attentional styles.
Study authors in this cited reference