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. 2013 Feb;43(2):286-300.
doi: 10.1007/s10803-012-1569-x.

Getting a grip on social gaze: control over others' gaze helps gaze detection in high-functioning autism

Thomas Dratsch  1 , Caroline Schwartz, Kliment Yanev, Leonhard Schilbach, Kai Vogeley, Gary Bente
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Getting a grip on social gaze: control over others' gaze helps gaze detection in high-functioning autism

Thomas Dratsch et al. J Autism Dev Disord. 2013 Feb.

Abstract

We investigated the influence of control over a social stimulus on the ability to detect direct gaze in high-functioning autism (HFA). In a pilot study, 19 participants with and 19 without HFA were compared on a gaze detection and a gaze setting task. Participants with HFA were less accurate in detecting direct gaze in the detection task, but did not differ in their ability to establish direct gaze in the setting task. In the main experiment, the results of the pilot study were replicated with 37 participants with and 39 without HFA, suggesting that individuals with HFA have a specific deficit in the passive perception of social cues as opposed to the active control, which seems to be intact.

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