Sex Differences in Social Attention in Infants at Risk for Autism
We studied visual attention to emotional faces in 10-month-old infant siblings of children with ASD (ASD-sibs; N = 70) and a siblings of typically developing children (N = 29) using static stimuli. Contrary to our predictions, we found no evidence for atypical gaze behavior in ASD-sibs when boys and...
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| author | Kleberg, J. Nyström, P. Bölte, Sven Falck-Ytter, T. |
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| description | We studied visual attention to emotional faces in 10-month-old infant siblings of children with ASD (ASD-sibs; N = 70) and a siblings of typically developing children (N = 29) using static stimuli. Contrary to our predictions, we found no evidence for atypical gaze behavior in ASD-sibs when boys and girls were analyzed together. However, a sex difference was found in ASD-sibs' visual attention to the mouth. Male ASD-sibs looked more at the mouth across emotions compared to male controls and female ASD-sibs. In contrast, female ASD-sibs looked less at the mouth compared to female controls. These findings suggest that some aspects of early emerging atypical social attention in ASD-sibs may be sex specific. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-740642019-07-15T08:39:12Z Sex Differences in Social Attention in Infants at Risk for Autism Kleberg, J. Nyström, P. Bölte, Sven Falck-Ytter, T. We studied visual attention to emotional faces in 10-month-old infant siblings of children with ASD (ASD-sibs; N = 70) and a siblings of typically developing children (N = 29) using static stimuli. Contrary to our predictions, we found no evidence for atypical gaze behavior in ASD-sibs when boys and girls were analyzed together. However, a sex difference was found in ASD-sibs' visual attention to the mouth. Male ASD-sibs looked more at the mouth across emotions compared to male controls and female ASD-sibs. In contrast, female ASD-sibs looked less at the mouth compared to female controls. These findings suggest that some aspects of early emerging atypical social attention in ASD-sibs may be sex specific. 2018 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/74064 10.1007/s10803-018-3799-z http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Springer New York LLC fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Kleberg, J. Nyström, P. Bölte, Sven Falck-Ytter, T. Sex Differences in Social Attention in Infants at Risk for Autism |
| title | Sex Differences in Social Attention in Infants at Risk for Autism |
| title_full | Sex Differences in Social Attention in Infants at Risk for Autism |
| title_fullStr | Sex Differences in Social Attention in Infants at Risk for Autism |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sex Differences in Social Attention in Infants at Risk for Autism |
| title_short | Sex Differences in Social Attention in Infants at Risk for Autism |
| title_sort | sex differences in social attention in infants at risk for autism |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/74064 |