Differential Attention to Faces in Infant Siblings of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Associations with Later Social and Language Ability

Autor/inn/en	Wagner, Jennifer; Luyster, Rhiannon J.; Moustapha, Hana; Tager-Flusberg, Helen; Nelson, Charles Alexander
Titel	Differential Attention to Faces in Infant Siblings of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Associations with Later Social and Language Ability
Quelle	In: International Journal of Behavioral Development, 42 (2018) 1, S.83-92 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0165-0254
DOI	10.1177/0165025416673475
Schlagwörter	Infants; Siblings; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Autism; Eye Movements; Attention; Expressive Language; Receptive Language; Human Body; Children; At Risk Persons; Diagnostic Tests; Observation; Statistical Analysis; Cognitive Ability; Young Children; Motor Development; Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule; Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales; Mullen Scales of Early Learning + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Sibling; Geschwister; Autismus; Augenbewegung; Aufmerksamkeit; Rezeptive Kommunikationsfähigkeit; Menschlicher Körper; Child; Kind; Kinder; Risikogruppe; Diagnostic test; Diagnostischer Test; Beobachtung; Statistische Analyse; Denkfähigkeit; Frühe Kindheit; Motorische Entwicklung
Abstract	A growing body of literature has begun to explore social attention in infant siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with hopes of identifying early differences that are associated with later ASD or other aspects of development. The present study used eye-tracking to familiar (mother) and unfamiliar (stranger) faces in two groups of 6-month-old infants: infants with no family history of ASD (low-risk controls; LRC), and infants at high risk for ASD (HRA), by virtue of having an older sibling with ASD. HRA infants were further characterized based on autism classification at 24 months or older as HRA- (HRA without an ASD outcome) or HRA+ (HRA with an ASD outcome). For time scanning faces overall, HRA+ and LRC showed similar patterns of attention, and this was significantly greater than in HRA-. When examining duration of time spent on eyes and mouth, all infants spent more time on eyes than mouth, but HRA+ showed the greatest amount of time looking at these regions, followed by LRC, then HRA-. LRC showed a positive association between 6-month attention to eyes and 18-month social-communicative behavior, while HRA- showed a negative association between attention to eyes at 6 months and expressive language at 18 months (all correlations controlled for non-verbal IQ; HRA- correlations held with and without the inclusion of the small sample of HRA+). Differences found in face scanning at 6 months, as well as associations with social communication at 18 months, point to potential variation in the developmental significance of early social attention in children at low and high risk for ASD. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01