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Measuring the value of social engagement in adults with and without autism

Overview of attention for article published in Molecular Autism, June 2015
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Title
Measuring the value of social engagement in adults with and without autism
Published in
Molecular Autism, June 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13229-015-0031-2
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Indu Dubey, Danielle Ropar, Antonia F. de C Hamilton

Abstract

Differences in social communication are commonly reported in autism spectrum condition (ASC). A recent theory attributes this to a reduced motivation to engage with others, that is, deficits in social motivation. However, there are currently few simple, direct, behavioural ways to test this claim. This study uses a new behavioural measure of social motivation to test if preferences for direct gaze and face stimuli are linked to autistic traits or an ASC diagnosis. Our novel choose-a-movie (CAM) paradigm measures the effort participants invest to see particular stimuli. This aspect of social motivation is also known as social seeking. In experiment 1, 80 typical adults completed the CAM task and a measure of autistic traits. In experiment 2, 30 adults with ASC and 24 age/IQ-matched typical adults completed the CAM paradigm. The results from study one showed that typical adults prefer social stimuli over non-social, but this preference is weaker in those with higher levels of autistic traits. In study two, adults with ASC showed a significant reduction in their preference for direct gaze but little difference in their preference for faces without direct gaze. These data show that social motivation can be measured in a simple, direct, behavioural paradigm. Furthermore, adults with ASC prefer direct gaze less than typical adults but may not avoid faces without direct gaze. This data advance our understanding of how social motivation may differ between those with and without autism.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 144 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 38 26%
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 14%
Student > Bachelor 15 10%
Researcher 11 8%
Student > Postgraduate 11 8%
Other 21 14%
Unknown 29 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 59 41%
Neuroscience 15 10%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 3%
Engineering 4 3%
Other 16 11%
Unknown 42 29%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 September 2016.
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#3,091,458
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#285
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#39,452
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Outputs of similar age from Molecular Autism
#15
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