2024
Social Anxiety Reduces Visual Attention to the Eyes of Emotional Faces in Autistic Youth
Franke C, Griffin J, Naples A, Wolf J, McPartland J. Social Anxiety Reduces Visual Attention to the Eyes of Emotional Faces in Autistic Youth. Journal Of Autism And Developmental Disorders 2024, 1-13. PMID: 39556296, DOI: 10.1007/s10803-024-06636-4.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchNon-autistic participantsSocial attentionSocial anxietyEye contactAutistic youthEyes of emotional facesSA characteristicsEye trackingReduced eye contactSelf-reported SAReduced visual attentionNon-autistic childrenEmotional facesAutistic participantsPsychiatric characteristicsNon-autistic youthAutistic individualsEmotional expressionVisual attentionEye regionBehavioral featuresSocial interactionAutismParticipantsCo-occurrence
2022
Neural correlates of eye contact and social function in autism spectrum disorder
Hirsch J, Zhang X, Noah J, Dravida S, Naples A, Tiede M, Wolf J, McPartland J. Neural correlates of eye contact and social function in autism spectrum disorder. PLOS ONE 2022, 17: e0265798. PMID: 36350848, PMCID: PMC9645655, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0265798.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAutism spectrum disorderDorsal parietal regionsNeural correlatesEye contactLive eyesNeural responsesSpectrum disorderAutism Diagnostic Observation ScheduleUnderlying neural correlatesSocial Responsiveness ScaleGold standard measureCentral diagnostic criterionDiagnostic criteriaDiagnostic biomarkersSRS-2ADOS-2Responsiveness ScaleObservation ScheduleParietal regionsPupillometry dataNeural systemsEyesNatural interactionDisordersCorrelatesPredictability modulates neural response to eye contact in ASD
Naples AJ, Foss-Feig JH, Wolf JM, Srihari VH, McPartland JC. Predictability modulates neural response to eye contact in ASD. Molecular Autism 2022, 13: 42. PMID: 36309762, PMCID: PMC9618208, DOI: 10.1186/s13229-022-00519-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAutism spectrum disorderEvent-related potentialsNeural responsesAdult participantsAmplitude of N170Perception of gazeP300 event-related potentialExperiment twoN170 responseAnxiety symptomologyCognitive abilitiesNeural basisExperiment oneNeural processingASD sampleSpectrum disorderInterpersonal interactionsN170P300 responseAutistic womenEye contactEye trackingSocial interactionSocial contextSocial world