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Getting a grip on social gaze: control over others' gaze helps gaze detection in high-functioning autism |
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| Authors: | Dratsch Thomas Schwartz Caroline Yanev Kliment Schilbach Leonhard Vogeley Kai Bente Gary |
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology, University of Cologne, Richard-Strauss-Street 2, 50931, Cologne, Germany 2. Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Cologne, Kerpener Street 62, 50924, Cologne, Germany 3. Max-Planck-Institute for Neurological Research, Cologne, Germany 4. Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine, Cognitive Neuroscience INM3, Research Center Juelich, Jülich, Germany |
| Abstract: | We investigated the influence of control over a social stimulus on the ability to detect direct gaze in high-functioning autism (HFA). In a pilot study, 19 participants with and 19 without HFA were compared on a gaze detection and a gaze setting task. Participants with HFA were less accurate in detecting direct gaze in the detection task, but did not differ in their ability to establish direct gaze in the setting task. In the main experiment, the results of the pilot study were replicated with 37 participants with and 39 without HFA, suggesting that individuals with HFA have a specific deficit in the passive perception of social cues as opposed to the active control, which seems to be intact. |
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