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Relative Average Look Duration and its Association with Neurophysiological Activity in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

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Isaev, DY; Major, S; Murias, M; Carpenter, KLH; Carlson, D; Sapiro, G; Dawson, G
Published in: Sci Rep
February 5, 2020

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is characterized by early attentional differences that often precede the hallmark symptoms of social communication impairments. Development of novel measures of attentional behaviors may lead to earlier identification of children at risk for ASD. In this work, we first introduce a behavioral measure, Relative Average Look Duration (RALD), indicating attentional preference to different stimuli, such as social versus nonsocial stimuli; and then study its association with neurophysiological activity. We show that (1) ASD and typically developing (TD) children differ in both (absolute) Average Look Duration (ALD) and RALD to stimuli during an EEG experiment, with the most pronounced differences in looking at social stimuli; and (2) associations between looking behaviors and neurophysiological activity, as measured by EEG, are different for children with ASD versus TD. Even when ASD children show attentional engagement to social content, our results suggest that their underlying brain activity is different than TD children. This study therefore introduces a new measure of social/nonsocial attentional preference in ASD and demonstrates the value of incorporating attentional variables measured simultaneously with EEG into the analysis pipeline.

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Sci Rep

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2045-2322

Publication Date

February 5, 2020

Volume

10

Issue

1

Start / End Page

1912

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Time Factors
  • Social Behavior
  • Neurologic Examination
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Feasibility Studies
  • Electroencephalography
  • Child, Preschool
  • Child
 

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Isaev, D. Y., Major, S., Murias, M., Carpenter, K. L. H., Carlson, D., Sapiro, G., & Dawson, G. (2020). Relative Average Look Duration and its Association with Neurophysiological Activity in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Sci Rep, 10(1), 1912. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-57902-1
Isaev, Dmitry Yu, Samantha Major, Michael Murias, Kimberly L. H. Carpenter, David Carlson, Guillermo Sapiro, and Geraldine Dawson. “Relative Average Look Duration and its Association with Neurophysiological Activity in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Sci Rep 10, no. 1 (February 5, 2020): 1912. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-57902-1.
Isaev DY, Major S, Murias M, Carpenter KLH, Carlson D, Sapiro G, et al. Relative Average Look Duration and its Association with Neurophysiological Activity in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Sci Rep. 2020 Feb 5;10(1):1912.
Isaev, Dmitry Yu, et al. “Relative Average Look Duration and its Association with Neurophysiological Activity in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Sci Rep, vol. 10, no. 1, Feb. 2020, p. 1912. Pubmed, doi:10.1038/s41598-020-57902-1.
Isaev DY, Major S, Murias M, Carpenter KLH, Carlson D, Sapiro G, Dawson G. Relative Average Look Duration and its Association with Neurophysiological Activity in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Sci Rep. 2020 Feb 5;10(1):1912.

Published In

Sci Rep

DOI

EISSN

2045-2322

Publication Date

February 5, 2020

Volume

10

Issue

1

Start / End Page

1912

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Time Factors
  • Social Behavior
  • Neurologic Examination
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Feasibility Studies
  • Electroencephalography
  • Child, Preschool
  • Child