scholarly journals Comparison of three different eye‐tracking tasks for distinguishing autistic from typically developing children and autistic symptom severity

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 1529-1540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Kou ◽  
Jiao Le ◽  
Meina Fu ◽  
Chunmei Lan ◽  
Zhuo Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Symptom Severity ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Typically Developing Children ◽  
Tracking Tasks ◽  
Autistic Symptom

Eye Movements and White Matter are Associated with Emotional Control in Children Treated for Brain Tumors

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (10) ◽  
pp. 978-992
Author(s):  
Iska Moxon-Emre ◽  
Margot J. Taylor ◽  
Norman A. S. Farb ◽  
Adeoye A. Oyefiade ◽  
Michael D. Taylor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
White Matter ◽  
Brain Tumors ◽  
Eye Tracking ◽  
The Body ◽  
Emotional Control ◽  
Emotional Difficulties ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Typically Developing Children ◽  
Emotional Faces

AbstractObjective:Children treated for brain tumors often experience social and emotional difficulties, including challenges with emotion regulation; our goal was to investigate the attention-related component processes of emotion regulation, using a novel eye-tracking measure, and to evaluate its relations with emotional functioning and white matter (WM) organization.Method:Fifty-four children participated in this study; 36 children treated for posterior fossa tumors, and 18 typically developing children. Participants completed two versions of an emotion regulation eye-tracking task, designed to differentiate between implicit (i.e., automatic) and explicit (i.e., voluntary) subprocesses. The Emotional Control scale from the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function was used to evaluate emotional control in daily life, and WM organization was assessed with diffusion tensor imaging.Results:We found that emotional faces captured attention across all groups (F(1,51) = 32.18, p < .001, η2p = .39). However, unlike typically developing children, patients were unable to override the attentional capture of emotional faces when instructed to (emotional face-by-group interaction: F(2,51) = 5.58, p = .006, η2p = .18). Across all children, our eye-tracking measure of emotion regulation was modestly associated with the parent-report emotional control score (r = .29, p = .045), and in patients it was associated with WM microstructure in the body and splenium of the corpus callosum (all t > 3.03, all p < .05).Conclusions:Our findings suggest that an attention-related component process of emotion regulation is disrupted in children treated for brain tumors, and that it may relate to their emotional difficulties and WM organization. This work provides a foundation for future theoretical and mechanistic investigations of emotional difficulties in brain tumor survivors.

Remote eye tracking assesses age dependence processing of coherent motion in typically-developing children

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-115
Author(s):  
J. J. M. Pel ◽  
Y. J. van der Zee ◽  
F. H. Boot ◽  
H. M. Evenhuis ◽  
J. van der Steen
Keyword(s):  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Coherent Motion ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Age Dependence ◽  
Typically Developing Children

scholarly journals Comparison of three different eye-tracking tasks for distinguishing autistic from typically developing children and autistic symptom severity

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Kou ◽  
Jiao Le ◽  
Meina Fu ◽  
Chunmei Lan ◽  
Zhuo Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trial ◽  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Biological Motion ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Autistic Children ◽  
Typically Developing Children ◽  
Social Stimuli ◽  
Visual Preference ◽  
Geometric Patterns ◽  
Social Affect

AbstractAltered patterns of visual social attention preference detected using eye-tracking and a variety of different paradigms are increasingly proposed as sensitive biomarkers for autism spectrum disorder. However, few eye tracking studies have compared the relative efficacy of different paradigms to discriminate between autistic compared with typically developing children and their sensitivity to specific symptoms. To target this issue, the current study used three common eye tracking protocols contrasting social versus non-social stimuli in young (2-7 years old) Chinese autistic (n = 35) and typically developing (n = 34) children matched for age and gender. Protocols included dancing people vs. dynamic geometrical images, biological motion (dynamic light point walking human or cat) vs. non-biological motion (scrambled controls) and child playing with toy vs. toy alone. Although all three paradigms differentiated autistic and typically developing children, the dancing people versus dynamic geometry pattern paradigm was the most effective, with autistic children showing marked reductions in visual preference for dancing people and correspondingly increased one for geometric patterns. Furthermore, this altered visual preference in autistic children was correlated with the ADOS social affect score and had the highest discrimination accuracy. Our results therefore indicate that decreased visual preference for dynamic social stimuli may be the most effective visual attention-based paradigm for use as a biomarker for autism in Chinese children. Clinical trial ID: NCT03286621 (clinicaltrials.gov); Clinical trial name: Development of Eye-tracking Based Markers for Autism in Young Children.Lay summaryEye-tracking measures may be useful in aiding diagnosis and treatment of autism, although it is unclear which specific tasks are optimal. Here we compare the ability of three different social eye-gaze tasks to discriminate between autistic and typically developing young Chinese children and their sensitivity to specific autistic symptoms. Our results show that a dynamic task comparing visual preference for social (individuals dancing) versus geometric patterns is the most effective both for diagnosing autism and sensitivity to its social affect symptoms.

Age Norms for Auditory-Perceptual Neurophonetic Parameters: A Prerequisite for the Assessment of Childhood Dysarthria

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 1071-1082
Author(s):  
Theresa Schölderle ◽  
Elisabet Haas ◽  
Wolfram Ziegler
Keyword(s):  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Voice Quality ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Typically Developing Children ◽  
Age Norms ◽  
Elementary School Age ◽  
Speech Characteristics ◽  
Substantial Progress ◽  
Computer Based

Purpose The aim of this study was to collect auditory-perceptual data on established symptom categories of dysarthria from typically developing children between 3 and 9 years of age, for the purpose of creating age norms for dysarthria assessment. Method One hundred forty-four typically developing children (3;0–9;11 [years;months], 72 girls and 72 boys) participated. We used a computer-based game specifically designed for this study to elicit sentence repetitions and spontaneous speech samples. Speech recordings were analyzed using the auditory-perceptual criteria of the Bogenhausen Dysarthria Scales, a standardized German assessment tool for dysarthria in adults. The Bogenhausen Dysarthria Scales (scales and features) cover clinically relevant dimensions of speech and allow for an evaluation of well-established symptom categories of dysarthria. Results The typically developing children exhibited a number of speech characteristics overlapping with established symptom categories of dysarthria (e.g., breathy voice, frequent inspirations, reduced articulatory precision, decreased articulation rate). Substantial progress was observed between 3 and 9 years of age, but with different developmental trajectories across different dimensions. In several areas (e.g., respiration, voice quality), 9-year-olds still presented with salient developmental speech characteristics, while in other dimensions (e.g., prosodic modulation), features typically associated with dysarthria occurred only exceptionally, even in the 3-year-olds. Conclusions The acquisition of speech motor functions is a prolonged process not yet completed with 9 years. Various developmental influences (e.g., anatomic–physiological changes) shape children's speech specifically. Our findings are a first step toward establishing auditory-perceptual norms for dysarthria in children of kindergarten and elementary school age. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.12133380

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