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Meanings in motion and faces: Developmental associations between the processing of intention from geometrical animations and gaze detection accuracy

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CAMPBELL, RUTH, LAWRENCE, KATE, MANDY, WILLIAM, MITRA, CHEYTNA, JEYAKUMA, LALITHA, SKUSE, DAVID·2006·Development and Psychopathology
DOI 10.1017/s0954579406060068
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Aspects of face processing, on the one hand, and theory of mind (ToM) tasks, on the other hand, show specific impairment in autism. We aimed to discover whether a correlation between tasks tapping these abilities was evident in typically developing children at two developmental stages. One hundred fifty-four normal children (6-8 years and 16-18 years) and 13 high-IQ autistic children (11-17 years) were tested on a range of face-processing and IQ tasks, and a ToM test based on the attribution of intentional movement to abstract shapes in a cartoon. By midchildhood, the ability accurately and spontaneously to infer the locus of attention of a face with direct or averted gaze was specifically associated with the ability to describe geometrical animations using mental state terms. Other face-processing and animation descriptions failed to show the association. Autistic adolescents were impaired at both gaze processing and ToM descriptions, using these tests. Mentalizing and gaze perception accuracy are associated in typically developing children and adolescents. The findings are congruent with the possibility that common neural circuitry underlies, at least in part, processing implicated in these tasks. They are also congruent with the possibility that autism may lie at one end of a developmental continuum with respect to these skills, and to the factor(s) underpinning them.

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  • Campbell et al.'s (2006) results suggest that eye gaze acuity may be slightly worse in children with ASD.

    “Even so, Campbell et al.'s (2006) results do suggest that eye gaze acuity may be slightly worse in children with ASD.”

    From Vision in autism spectrum disorders (2009) · cites this paper as Campbell et al. (2006)

  • Campbell et al. (2006) found a specific deficit in eye gaze sensitivity in their sample of 11-year-old children with ASD and carefully matched controls.

    “Campbell et al. (2006), however, did find a specific deficit in eye gaze sensitivity in their sample of 11-year-old children with ASD and carefully matched controls.”

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  • Campbell et al.'s (2006) task was likely more challenging than Leekam et al.'s (1997) in that the gaze displacements were smaller.

    “Their task was likely more challenging than that of Leekam et al. (1997) in that the gaze displacements were smaller.”

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  • Two studies have suggested that younger children with ASD may have problems with detecting very fine modulations of eye gaze.

    “Two studies have suggested that younger children with ASD may have problems with detecting very fine modulations of eye gaze (Campbell et al., 2006;Webster & Potter, 2008)”

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Authors
CAMPBELL, R., LAWRENCE, K., MANDY, W., MITRA, C., JEYAKUMA, L., & SKUSE, D.
Affiliations
  • University College London (GB)
  • Institute of Child Health
ORCID
Venue
Development and Psychopathology
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2006-02-10
Volume
18
Issue
1
Pages
99-118
ISSN
  • 0954-5794 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-2198
DOI
10.1017/s0954579406060068
OpenAlex
W2142667364
Cited by
80
References
71
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 3 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 8 · 2012: 6
FWCI
6.23
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified)
Locations
  • Development and Psychopathology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Economic and Social Research Council (RES-620-28-6001)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
Keywords
autism spectrum disorder, theory of mind, gaze perception, face processing, mentalization, intention attribution, mental state language, developmental continuity, adolescents
MeSH terms
Autistic Disorder, Brain, Cerebral Cortex, Child, Face, Facial Expression, Fixation, Ocular, Humans, Intelligence Tests, Social Behavior, Prosopagnosia, Recognition, Psychology

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