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That looks familiar : attention allocation to familiar and unfamiliar faces in children with autism spectrum disorder . INTRODUCTION Existing eye-tracking literature has shown that both adults and children with autism spectrum disorders ( ASD ) show fewer and slower fixations on faces . Despite this reduced saliency and processing of other faces , recognition of their own face is reported to be more " typical " in nature . This study uses eye-tracking to explore the typicality of gaze patterns when children with ASD attend their own faces compared to other familiar and unfamiliar faces . METHODS Eye-tracking methodology was used to explore fixation duration and time taken to fixate on the Eye and Mouth regions of familiar , unfamiliar and Self Faces . Twenty-one children with ASD ( 9-16 years ) were compared to typically developing matched groups . RESULTS There were no significant differences between children with ASD and typically matched groups for fixation patterns to the Eye and Mouth areas of all face types ( familiar , unfamiliar and self ) . Correlational analyses showed that attention to the Eye area of unfamiliar and Self Faces was related to socio-communicative ability in children with ASD . CONCLUSIONS Levels of socio-communicative ability in children with ASD were related to gaze patterns on unfamiliar and Self Faces , but not familiar faces . This lack of relationship between ability and attention to familiar faces may indicate that children across the autism spectrum are able to fixate these faces in a similar way . The implications for these findings are discussed .
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eye-tracking
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eye-tracking
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Eye-tracking methodology
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fixation duration
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time taken to fixate on the Eye and Mouth regions of familiar
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unfamiliar and Self Faces
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fixation patterns to the Eye and Mouth areas
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gaze patterns on unfamiliar and Self Faces
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ability and attention
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children
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autism spectrum disorder
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adults
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children
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autism spectrum disorders ( ASD )
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children
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ASD
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Twenty-one
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ASD
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9-16 years
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children
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ASD
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children
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children
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