Eye Contact Perception in High-Functioning Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autor/inn/en	Uono, Shota; Yoshimura, Sayaka; Toichi, Motomi
Titel	Eye Contact Perception in High-Functioning Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Quelle	In: Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 25 (2021) 1, S.137-147 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Uono, Shota)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1362-3613
DOI	10.1177/1362361320949721
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Autism; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Adults; Eye Movements; Incidence; Nonverbal Communication; Rating Scales; Anxiety; Interaction; Visual Perception; Visual Stimuli; Arousal Patterns; Affective Behavior; Emotional Response; Japan; Childhood Autism Rating Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Autismus; Augenbewegung; Vorkommen; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Rating-Skala; Angst; Interaktion; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Emotionales Verhalten
Abstract	The present study investigated how the eye contact perception of ingroup and outgroup faces by Japanese adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder differed from that of age-, sex-, and IQ-matched typically developing individuals. The autism spectrum disorder and typically developing individuals were equally likely to perceive subtly averted gazes as self-directed gazes. In both groups, the frequency with which self-directed gazes were perceived decreased as gaze aversion increased. In general, individuals with autism spectrum disorder were equally capable of perceiving a self-directed gaze as typically developing individuals. However, typically developing individuals, but not individuals with autism spectrum disorder, were more likely to perceive self-directed gazes from ingroup faces than from outgroup faces. Stimuli ratings revealed that individuals with autism spectrum disorder, but not those with typically developing, gave higher warmth ratings to ingroup faces with averted gazes and outgroup faces with direct gazes compared to other types of face stimuli, suggesting atypical affective experiences in response to ingroup and outgroup faces in autism spectrum disorder. These results suggest that individuals with autism spectrum disorder did not show an ingroup bias for the perception of a self-directed gaze, and raise the possibility that an atypical emotional experience contributes to the diminished ingroup bias for the perception of a self-directed gaze. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01