Visual Scanning of Faces in Autism

By Kevin A. Pelphrey, N. Sasson, J. Reznick, Gregory Paul, B. Goldman, Joseph Piven. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2002

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience

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Brain basis of human social interaction: from concepts to brain imaging. (2009, background): “Accordingly, eye-gaze tracking data demonstrate that autistic persons avoid looking at faces when possible (183, 216) and thereby gain less practice in reading faces than do healthy people.”
Young children with Autism Spectrum Disorder look differently at positive versus negative emotional faces (2008, background): “Second,thegroupwithASDlookedlessatthefeatureareas(eyes,nose,mouth)comparedtothe rest of the screen, which is in accord with various earlier studies (e.g., Klin et al., 2002; Merin, Young, Ozonoff, & Rogers, 2007; Pelphrey et al., 2002 ).”
Face scanning in chimpanzees and humans: continuity and discontinuity (2010, methodology): “Indeed, it is known that autistic children, who experience difficulties in forming normal social and emotional relationships with people, pay less attention to the eye regions than children with typical developmental courses (Klin et al. 2002; Pelphrey et al. 2002; Dawson et al. 2004; Dalton et al. ”
An investigation of basic facial expression recognition in autism spectrum disorders (2008, background): “Alternatively, along with a previous report of adults with ASD mistaking angry faces as fear (Pelphrey et al., 2002), the finding from Experiment 1 of fear being confused as angry may suggest atypical processing of threat-related stimuli.”
Neural bases of eye and gaze processing: the core of social cognition. (2009, neutral): “Logically, this should favor the processing of eyes and gaze but eye movement monitoring studies have shown that ocular exploration of faces is disorganized, incoherent and quite variable, and that ASD individuals fixate less on the eye region than controls and more on other parts such as the mouth,”
Gaze Cueing of Attention (2007, background): “In some ways, the differences in primate use of gaze resemble early stages in human infant development, before the child learns to use those cues in a more flexible manner, and also stages at which some people develop difficulties with social cognition because of developmental disorders such as…”
Sex differences in scanning faces: Does attention to the eyes explain female superiority in facial expression recognition? (2010, methodology): “The aim of the present investigation was therefore to use eye-tracking methods previously employed with autistic individuals (e.g., Pelphrey et al., 2002) to examine sex differences in allocation of attention to different facial regions, and to examine the relationship between gaze patterns and…”
Understanding the Nature of Face Processing Impairment in Autism: Insights From Behavioral and Electrophysiological Studies (2005, background): “Studies (Klin, Jones, Schultz, Volkmar, & Cohen, 2002; Pelphrey et al., 2002; Trepagnier, Sebrechts, & Peterson, 2002) of visual attention to faces have indicated that individuals with autism exhibit reduced attention to the core features of the face, such as the eyes and nose, relative to typical…”
Vision in autism spectrum disorders. (2009, background): “…(1994), Gepner et al. (1996a), Loveland et al. (1997), Celani et al. (1999), Critchley et al. (2000), Grossman, Klin, Carter, and Volkmar (2000), Pelphrey et al. (2002), Ogai et al. (2003), Deruelle et al. (2004), Dalton et al. (2005), Hefter, Manoach, and Barton (2005), Ashwin, Chapman, Colle,…”
Patterns of eye movements when male and female observers judge female attractiveness, body fat and waist-to-hip ratio (2009, background): “Observers with deficits in face processing show abnormal patterns of eye-movements which appear to form the basis of their perceptual dysfunction (e.g. Adolphs et al., 2005; Caldara et al., 2005; Pelphrey et al., 2002).”
Does perceived direct gaze boost detection in adults and children with and without autism? The stare-in-the-crowd effect revisited (2005, background): “We believe it unlikely that such differences in stimuli affected current results because von GruÈnau and Anston (1995) found no difference between the ability to perceive straight gaze in typically developed adults with realistically drawn stimuli and schematic stimuli, and because individuals with ”
Introducing MASC: A Movie for the Assessment of Social Cognition (2006, background): “Hobson, Ouston, & Lee, 1988; Pelphrey et al., 2002; Teunisse & de Gelder, 2003), it would be important to ascertain the exact nature of the deficits.”
Activation of the fusiform gyrus when individuals with autism spectrum disorder view faces (2004, background): “…with ASD attend to faces in an abnormal manner, with an especially pronounced decrement in attention to the eye region (Klin et al., 2002; Pelphrey et al., 2002), which is the region of the face that is normally most informative for the purpose of face recognition (Goldstein and…”