title: Different visual preference patterns in response to simple and complex dynamic social stimuli in preschool-aged children with autism spectrum disorders.
abstract: Eye-tracking studies in young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have shown a visual attention preference for geometric patterns when viewing paired dynamic social images (DSIs) and dynamic geometric images (DGIs). In the present study, eye-tracking of two different paired presentations of DSIs and DGIs was monitored in a group of 13 children aged 4 to 6 years with ASD and 20 chronologically age-matched typically developing children (TDC). The results indicated that compared with the control group, children with ASD attended significantly less to DSIs showing two or more children playing than to similar DSIs showing a single child. Visual attention preference in 4- to 6-year-old children with ASDs, therefore, appears to be modulated by the type of visual stimuli.
authors.affiliation: Mental Health Institute of The Second Xiangya Hospital and Key Laboratory of Psychiatry and Mental Health of Hunan Province, The Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Lijuan
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.affiliation: Mental Health Institute of The Second Xiangya Hospital and Key Laboratory of Psychiatry and Mental Health of Hunan Province, The Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, P.R. China; Hangzhou Seventh People's Hospital, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Yuanyue
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: Mental Health Institute of The Second Xiangya Hospital and Key Laboratory of Psychiatry and Mental Health of Hunan Province, The Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Jianjun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ou
authors.affiliation: Mental Health Institute of The Second Xiangya Hospital and Key Laboratory of Psychiatry and Mental Health of Hunan Province, The Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, P.R. China; Traditional Chinese Medicine University of Hunan, Changsha, Hunan, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Jingbo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gong
authors.affiliation: Mental Health Institute of The Second Xiangya Hospital and Key Laboratory of Psychiatry and Mental Health of Hunan Province, The Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, P.R. China; Department of Neuroscience, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Changzhou, Jiangsu, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Suhong
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Mental Health Institute of The Second Xiangya Hospital and Key Laboratory of Psychiatry and Mental Health of Hunan Province, The Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Xilong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.affiliation: Mental Health Institute of The Second Xiangya Hospital and Key Laboratory of Psychiatry and Mental Health of Hunan Province, The Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Hailong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lyu
authors.affiliation: Mental Health Institute of The Second Xiangya Hospital and Key Laboratory of Psychiatry and Mental Health of Hunan Province, The Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Jingping
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: Mental Health Institute of The Second Xiangya Hospital and Key Laboratory of Psychiatry and Mental Health of Hunan Province, The Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Xuerong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Luo
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D000067877:Autism Spectrum Disorder / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual