Computational Modeling of Visual Attention in Young Children
with Autism Spectrum Disorders   Shic, Frederick  Chawarska,
Katarzyna  Yale University   2 years  Predoctoral Fellowships
New Haven   United States   New Haven State/Province Full: 
United States  Recent research using eye-tracking technology
suggests that people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) focus
their gaze on the mouth and body rather than on the eyes of
faces in a visual scene. These scanning patterns have been found
to correlate with measures of social dysfunction. Therefore,
characterizing and quantifying differences in how children with
autism attend to different stimuli in a social scene can
illuminate underlying (and harder to measure) deficits in
social-cognitive functioning. Utilization of eye-tracking
technology provides promise in better diagnostic and measurement
techniques. In order to better describe patterns in eye gaze and
visual processing in children with autism, the contextual cues
in a social scene will be altered and g