Publications [#352396] of Geraldine Dawson

Journal Articles

1. Kaliukhovich, DA; Manyakov, NV; Bangerter, A; Ness, S; Skalkin, A; Boice, M; Goodwin, MS; Dawson, G; Hendren, R; Leventhal, B; Shic, F; Pandina, G (2021). Visual Preference for Biological Motion in Children and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Eye-Tracking Study.. J Autism Dev Disord, 51(7), 2369-2380. [doi]
   (last updated on 2026/01/19)

   Abstract:
   Participants with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (n = 121, mean [SD] age: 14.6 [8.0] years) and typically developing (TD) controls (n = 40, 16.4 [13.3] years) were presented with a series of videos representing biological motion on one side of a computer monitor screen and non-biological motion on the other, while their eye movements were recorded. As predicted, participants with ASD spent less overall time looking at presented stimuli than TD participants (P < 10-3) and showed less preference for biological motion (P < 10-5). Participants with ASD also had greater average latencies than TD participants of the first fixation on both biological (P < 0.01) and non-biological motion (P < 0.02). Findings suggest that individuals with ASD differ from TD individuals on multiple properties of eye movements and biological motion preference.