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A Study of Impaired Judgment of Eye-Gaze Direction and Related Face-Processing Deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Wallace, Simon, Coleman, Michael, Pascalis, Olivier, Bailey, Anthony·2006·Perception

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The purpose of this study was to examine whether individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) use the same cognitive strategies as typically developing individuals when processing eye-gaze direction. Subjects viewed pictures of whole faces, the eye region alone, and pairs of arrows presented for 40, 70, or 100 ms, and responded according to the direction the eyes were looking or the arrows pointing (left, right, or straight ahead). Experiment 1 demonstrated that typically developing adults (n = 41) were more accurate and showed shorter reaction times when judging direction of averted eye gaze in the context of the whole face than when only the eyes were visible (eye-region-alone condition). Furthermore, in the eye-region-alone condition participants were more accurate and faster at judging direct eye gaze than averted eye gaze. The same task was used in experiment 2 to compare the performance of a group of individuals with ASD (n = 24) with that of a group of IQ-matched typically developing individuals (n = 26). The performance of the control participants was identical to that observed in experiment 1. Individuals with ASD were able to judge eye-gaze direction accurately at short exposure duration; however, they failed to show the typical advantage for judging averted gaze in whole faces and the increased sensitivity to direct gaze in the eye-region-alone condition. The findings are discussed in terms of impairments to discrete gaze-processing and face-processing mechanisms, and the connectivity between these mechanisms.

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  • Wallace et al. (2006) showed that eye-gaze detection is impaired in adults with ASD, particularly in the context of the whole face.

    “Wallace, Coleman, Pascalis, and Bailey (2006) also showed that eye-gaze detection is impaired in adults with ASD, particularly in the context of the whole face.”

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

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Authors
Wallace, S., Coleman, M., Pascalis, O., & Bailey, A.
Affiliations
  • University of Oxford (GB)
  • University College London (GB)
  • University of Sheffield (GB)
Corresponding author
Wallace, Simon
Venue
Perception
Published
2006-12
Volume
35
Issue
12
Pages
1651-1664
ISSN
  • 0301-0066 (ISSN-L)
  • 1468-4233
OpenAlex
W2142823610
Cited by
42
References
50
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 4
FWCI
1.46
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Perception (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
Keywords
autism spectrum disorder, gaze direction, gaze processing, face processing, averted gaze, direct gaze, face perception, cognitive strategies
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Analysis of Variance, Autistic Disorder, Eye Movements, Face, Fixation, Ocular, Humans, Judgment, Middle Aged, Psychophysics, Reaction Time, Visual Perception, Case-Control Studies, Recognition, Psychology

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