[article] 
inAutism Research > 7-5 (October 2014) . - p.590-597

Titre :	Absence of Preferential Unconscious Processing of Eye Contact in Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder
Type de document :	Texte imprimé et/ou numérique
Auteurs :	Hironori AKECHI, Auteur ; Timo STEIN, Auteur ; Atsushi SENJU, Auteur ; Yukiko KIKUCHI, Auteur ; Yoshikuni TOJO, Auteur ; Hiroo OSANAI, Auteur ; Toshikazu HASEGAWA, Auteur
Article en page(s) :	p.590-597
Langues :	Anglais (eng)
Mots-clés :	eye contact  gaze processing  autism spectrum disorder  unconscious processing
Index. décimale :	PER Périodiques
Résumé :	Eye contact plays an essential role in social interaction. Atypical eye contact is a diagnostic and widely reported feature of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Here, we determined whether altered unconscious visual processing of eye contact might underlie atypical eye contact in ASD. Using continuous flash suppression (CFS), we found that typically developing (TD) adolescents detected faces with a direct gaze faster than faces with an averted gaze, indicating enhanced unconscious processing of eye contact. Critically, adolescents with ASD did not show different durations of perceptual suppression for faces with direct and averted gaze, suggesting that preferential unconscious processing of eye contact is absent in this group. In contrast, in a non-CFS control experiment, both adolescents with ASD and TD adolescents detected faces with a direct gaze faster than those with an averted gaze. Another CFS experiment confirmed that unconscious processing of non-social stimuli is intact for adolescents with ASD. These results suggest that atypical processing of eye contact in individuals with ASD could be related to a weaker initial, unconscious registration of eye contact. Autism Res 2014, 7: 590–597. © 2014 International Society for Autism Research, Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
En ligne :	http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aur.1397
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[article] Absence of Preferential Unconscious Processing of Eye Contact in Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Hironori AKECHI, Auteur ; Timo STEIN, Auteur ; Atsushi SENJU, Auteur ; Yukiko KIKUCHI, Auteur ; Yoshikuni TOJO, Auteur ; Hiroo OSANAI, Auteur ; Toshikazu HASEGAWA, Auteur . - p.590-597.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in Autism Research > 7-5 (October 2014) . - p.590-597

Mots-clés :	eye contact  gaze processing  autism spectrum disorder  unconscious processing
Index. décimale :	PER Périodiques
Résumé :	Eye contact plays an essential role in social interaction. Atypical eye contact is a diagnostic and widely reported feature of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Here, we determined whether altered unconscious visual processing of eye contact might underlie atypical eye contact in ASD. Using continuous flash suppression (CFS), we found that typically developing (TD) adolescents detected faces with a direct gaze faster than faces with an averted gaze, indicating enhanced unconscious processing of eye contact. Critically, adolescents with ASD did not show different durations of perceptual suppression for faces with direct and averted gaze, suggesting that preferential unconscious processing of eye contact is absent in this group. In contrast, in a non-CFS control experiment, both adolescents with ASD and TD adolescents detected faces with a direct gaze faster than those with an averted gaze. Another CFS experiment confirmed that unconscious processing of non-social stimuli is intact for adolescents with ASD. These results suggest that atypical processing of eye contact in individuals with ASD could be related to a weaker initial, unconscious registration of eye contact. Autism Res 2014, 7: 590–597. © 2014 International Society for Autism Research, Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
En ligne :	http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aur.1397
Permalink :	https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=241