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Visual attention for social information and salivary oxytocin levels in preschool children with autism spectrum disorders: an eye-tracking study

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Neuroscience, September 2014
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Title
Visual attention for social information and salivary oxytocin levels in preschool children with autism spectrum disorders: an eye-tracking study
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Frontiers in Neuroscience, September 2014
DOI 10.3389/fnins.2014.00295
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Takashi X. Fujisawa, Shiho Tanaka, Daisuke N. Saito, Hirotaka Kosaka, Akemi Tomoda

Abstract

This study was designed to ascertain the relationship between visual attention for social information and oxytocin (OT) levels in Japanese preschool children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We hypothesized that poor visual attention for social information and low OT levels are crucially important risk factors associated with ASD. We measured the pattern of gaze fixation for social information using an eye-tracking system, and salivary OT levels by the Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA). There was a positive association between salivary OT levels and fixation duration for an indicated object area in a finger-pointing movie in typically developing (TD) children. However, no association was found between these variables in children with ASD. Moreover, age decreased an individual's attention to people moving and pointed-at objects, but increased attention for mouth-in-the-face recognition, geometric patterns, and biological motions. Thus, OT levels likely vary during visual attention for social information between TD children and those with ASD. Further, aging in preschool children has considerable effect on visual attention for social information.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Japan 2 2%
Poland 1 <1%
Unknown 109 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 24 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 13%
Student > Master 13 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 10%
Student > Bachelor 10 9%
Other 21 19%
Unknown 18 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 24 21%
Medicine and Dentistry 17 15%
Neuroscience 11 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 7%
Social Sciences 6 5%
Other 21 19%
Unknown 25 22%
Attention Score in Context

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#6,160,872
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Outputs from Frontiers in Neuroscience
#4,089
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#58,505
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Neuroscience
#27
of 115 outputs
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