Reducing facial dynamics' speed during speech enhances attention to mouth in children with autism spectrum disorder: An eye-tracking study.

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serval:BIB_99A483F6E1E0
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Publications
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Title
Reducing facial dynamics' speed during speech enhances attention to mouth in children with autism spectrum disorder: An eye-tracking study.
Journal
Development and psychopathology
Author(s)
Gepner B., Godde A., Charrier A., Carvalho N., Tardif C.
ISSN
1469-2198 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0954-5794
Publication state
Published
Issued date
08/2021
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
33
Number
3
Pages
1006-1015
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
Facial movements of others during verbal and social interaction are often too rapid to be faced and/or processed in time by numerous children and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which could contribute to their face-to-face interaction peculiarities. We wish here to measure the effect of reducing the speed of one's facial dynamics on the visual exploration of the face by children with ASD. Twenty-three children with ASD and 29 typically-developing control children matched for chronological age passively viewed a video of a speaker telling a story at various velocities, i.e., a real-time speed and two slowed-down speeds. The visual scene was divided into four areas of interest (AOI): face, mouth, eyes, and outside the face. With an eye-tracking system, we measured the percentage of total fixation duration per AOI and the number and mean duration of the visual fixations made on each AOI. In children with ASD, the mean duration of visual fixations on the mouth region, which correlated with their verbal level, increased at slowed-down velocity compared with the real-time one, a finding which parallels a result also found in the control children. These findings strengthen the therapeutic potential of slowness for enhancing verbal and language abilities in children with ASD.
Keywords
Adult, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Child, Eye-Tracking Technology, Fixation, Ocular, Humans, Mouth, Speech, attention to mouth, autism spectrum disorder, eye-tracking, mean duration of fixation, slowness
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Web of science
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