Promoting social attention in 3‐year‐olds with ASD through gaze‐contingent eye tracking

Wang, Quan; Wall, Carla A.; Barney, Erin; Bradshaw, Jessica; Macari, Suzanne; Chawarska, Katarzyna; Shic, Frederick

doi:10.1002/aur.2199

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“…Previous studies have introduced many helpful training methods for ASD. Gaze-contingent training effectively increases attention toward the face of onscreen social characters in ASD ( Wang et al, 2020 ). Phung and Goldberg (2019) found that martial arts training improves executive functioning deficits in children with ASD.…”

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Movie Events Detecting Reveals Inter-Subject Synchrony Difference of Functional Brain Activity in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Zeng

Gao

et al. 2022

Front. Comput. Neurosci.

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Recently, movie-watching fMRI has been recognized as a novel method to explore brain working patterns. Previous researchers correlated natural stimuli with brain responses to explore brain functional specialization by “reverse correlation” methods, which were based on within-group analysis. However, what external stimuli drove significantly different brain responses in two groups of different subjects were still unknown. To address this, sliding time windows technique combined with inter-Subject functional correlation (ISFC) was proposed to detect movie events with significant group differences between autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and typical development (TD) subjects. Then, using inter-Subject correlation (ISC) and ISFC analysis, we found that in three movie events involving character emotions, the ASD group showed significantly lower ISC in the middle temporal gyrus, temporal pole, cerebellum, caudate, precuneus, and showed decreased functional connectivity between large scale networks than that in TD. Under the movie event focusing on objects and scenes shot, the dorsal and ventral attentional networks of ASD had a strong synchronous response. Meanwhile, ASD also displayed increased functional connectivity between the frontoparietal network (FPN) and dorsal attention network (DAN), FPN, and sensorimotor network (SMN) than TD. ASD has its own unique synchronous response rather than being “unresponsive” in natural movie-watching. Our findings provide a new method and valuable insight for exploring the inconsistency of the brain “tick collectively” to same natural stimuli. This analytic approach has the potential to explore pathological mechanisms and promote training methods of ASD.

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Movie Events Detecting Reveals Inter-Subject Synchrony Difference of Functional Brain Activity in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Zeng

Gao

et al. 2022

Front. Comput. Neurosci.

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“…In the long duration of 1600 ms, the proportion of long response showed a signi cant difference between different identities, but this difference was not found in the short durations, suggesting that after learning the identity information, participants took a long time to process identities and in uence time perception. Second, as found in previous studies on individuals with ASD (Jones & Klin, 2013;Wang et al, 2020), when participants' attention is directed to social information based on task requirements, the cognitive processing of high AQ individuals can be improved, which also suggests that reasonable and effective interventions can work to a certain extent. Compared to the no identity condition, this study found that the Weber ratio of various identities decreased for individuals with high autism traits after identity association learning, suggesting that temporal sensitivity increased as well as the accuracy of temporal perception by the binding of social information based on task requirements.…”

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confidence: 52%

“…Central tendency is one of the most common performances in individuals with high AQ, indicating increased variability of time perception, but the temporal dimension is usually combined with various types of information, and individuals with high AQ often lack su cient sensitivity to social information (Howard et al, 2019). If we actively direct attention to social information by adding social information and giving task instructions, it is possible to adjust or improve the performance of perceptual processing (Jones & Klin, 2013;Wang et al, 2020).…”

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The Effects of Subthreshold Autistic Traits On Time Perception: The Regulation of Interpersonal Information Association

Xuan¹,

Li²,

Yang³

2021

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Background People with high subthreshold autistic traits usually show structural impairments like those with autism spectrum disorder, but with less social and cognitive impairments. The effect of autistic traits on time perception and the role of interpersonal information on this effect remains unexplored. Methods This study used a temporal bisection task between 400–1600 ms to compare the time perception of individuals with higher and lower autistic traits, and to explore the influence of interpersonal information on their time perception by establishing associations between interpersonal information and geometric figures. A total of 32 participants with high autistic traits and 31 participants with low autistic traits took part in the study. Results In the absence of identity information, people with high autistic traits tended to judge short durations as longer, and their Weber ratio was higher than those with low autistic traits, suggesting that their overestimation of short duration is due to decreased temporal sensitivity and increased internal clock frequency. With the addition of interpersonal information, individuals with high and low autistic traits had faster responses to self in the identity-figure association, and the subjective bisection point was shorter. However, it took longer for individuals with high autistic traits to build the self-association, and there was no difference in the proportion of long response and Weber ratio between individuals with high and low autistic traits when identity was involved. Conclusion These results suggest that individuals with high autistic traits have a higher central tendency, and this change is related to the decline of perceptual sensitivity. Actively guiding attention to interpersonal information can improve the time perception sensitivity of individuals with high autistic traits.

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“…Sample sizes were relatively small in the majority of the studies: only five studies included more than fifty subjects [ 25 , 36 , 39 , 46 , 48 ]; ten had 25–50 subjects [ 28 , 29 , 32 , 34 , 37 , 41 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 47 ]; and seven had 10–25 subjects [ 30 , 31 , 33 , 35 , 38 , 40 , 42 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The majority of the included studies are described in this section (14/24). In particular, ET-based training programs were developed to address the following populations: typically developing infants [ 44 , 45 ]; infants at familial risk for ADHD [ 41 ] or with an overt diagnosis of ADHD [ 30 , 31 , 37 , 42 ]; children with RS [ 34 , 35 , 39 ]; children with ASD [ 25 , 36 ]; and very preterm infants [ 40 , 49 ].…”

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Gaze-Contingent Eye-Tracking Training in Brain Disorders: A Systematic Review

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Eye movement abnormalities in association with cognitive and emotional deficits have been described in neurological, neurodevelopmental, and psychiatric disorders. Eye-Tracking (ET) techniques could therefore enhance cognitive interventions by contingently providing feedback to patients. Since no consensus has been reached thus far on this approach, this study aimed at systematically reviewing the current evidence. This review was performed and reported according to PRISMA guidelines. Records were searched for in PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus (1990–2021) through the following string: (‘Eye Tracking’ OR ‘Eye-Tracking’ OR ‘Oculomotor’) AND (‘Neuropsychol*’ OR ‘Cognitive’) AND (‘Rehabilitation’ OR ‘Training’ OR ‘Stimulation’). Study outcomes were thematically classified and qualitatively synthesized. A structured quality assessment was performed. A total of 24 articles were included, addressing neurodevelopmental (preterm infants and children with autism spectrum disorder, Rett syndrome, or ADHD; N = 14), psychiatric (mood and anxiety disorders or alcohol dependence; N = 7), and neurological conditions (stroke; N = 3). Overall, ET gaze-contingent training proved to be effective in improving cognitive and emotional alterations. However, population heterogeneity limits the generalizability of results. ET gaze-contingent protocols allow researchers to directly and dynamically train attentional functions; together with the recruitment of implicit, “bottom-up” strategies, these protocols are promising and possibly integrable with traditional cognitive approaches.

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Promoting social attention in 3‐year‐olds with ASD through gaze‐contingent eye tracking

Abstract: This is the author manuscript accepted for publication and has undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as

Cited by 17 publications

References 82 publications

Movie Events Detecting Reveals Inter-Subject Synchrony Difference of Functional Brain Activity in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Movie Events Detecting Reveals Inter-Subject Synchrony Difference of Functional Brain Activity in Autism Spectrum Disorder

The Effects of Subthreshold Autistic Traits On Time Perception: The Regulation of Interpersonal Information Association

Gaze-Contingent Eye-Tracking Training in Brain Disorders: A Systematic Review

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