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Eye movements affirm : automatic overt gaze and arrow cueing for typical adults and adults with autism spectrum disorder . People with autism spectrum disorder ( ASD ) show reduced interest towards social aspects of the environment and a lesser tendency to follow other people 's gaze in the real world . However , most studies have shown that people with ASD do respond to eye-gaze cues in experimental paradigms , though it is possible that this behaviour is based on an atypical strategy . We tested this possibility in adults with ASD using a cueing task combined with eye-movement recording . Both eye gaze and arrow pointing distractors resulted in overt cueing effects , both in terms of increased saccadic reaction times , and in proportions of saccades executed to the cued direction instead of to the target , for both participant groups . Our results confirm previous reports that eye gaze cues as well as arrow cues result in automatic orienting of overt attention . Moreover , since there were no group differences between arrow and eye gaze cues , we conclude that overt attentional orienting in ASD , at least in response to centrally presented schematic directional distractors , is typical .
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cueing task
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combined with eye-movement recording
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automatic overt gaze
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and
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arrow cueing
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tendency
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follow other people 's gaze
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overt cueing effects
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increased
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saccadic reaction times
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proportions of saccades executed to the cued direction instead of to the target
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automatic orienting of overt attention
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overt attentional orienting
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adults and adults
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autism spectrum disorder . People with autism spectrum disorder ( ASD )
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people with ASD
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adults
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ASD