Везде
Eye-tracking study of joint attention deficits in pre-school age
Table of contents
Annotation Estimate Publication content
References Comments
Share
QR
Metrics
Eye-tracking study of joint attention deficits in pre-school age
Annotation
PII
S020595920017070-3-
DOI
10.31857/S020595920017070-3
Publication type
Article
Status
Published
Authors
Ya. K. Smirnova 
ORCID: 0000-0001-5453-0144
Occupation: associate professor in the Department of General and Applied Psychology
Affiliation: Altai State University
Address: Russian Federation, Barnaul
Edition
Volume 42 Issue 6
Pages
46-59
Abstract

The article investigates joint attention deficits in various forms of atypical development using eye movement recording. Preschoolers aged 5-7 years from different clinical groups participated in the study: typically developing (n = 20), with mental retardation (ICD-10 class F83) (n = 20), preschoolers with delayed speech development (ICD-10 class R47) (n = 20), with hearing impairment (sensorineural hearing loss, ICD-10 class H90) (n = 10) and with visual impairment (amblyopia and strabismus, IBC-10 class H53) (n = 20). Contrasting group analyses allowed us to identify both specific and universal manifestations of joint attention deficit symptoms in the different forms of atypical development. Gaze tracking was used to analyze fixation duration and frequency, fixation distribution, areas of interest, and to identify markers of joint attention deficits that interfere with the child's productive interaction with an adult. Potential mechanisms of atypical joint attention are described, including atypical direction of gaze, changes in the dynamics of the operative visual field, duration of visual concentration, and accuracy in fixing the object’s elements. It is shown that fixation time in joint attention episodes can be regarded as a prognostic marker of joint attention disorders: joint attention is associated not only with spatial characteristics of areas of interest, but also with fixation duration on the object (decrease/increase in fixation duration).

Keywords
joint attention, divided attention, eye movements, preschool age, atypical development, eye -tracker
Acknowledgment
The results of the research were funded by the Presidential grant MK-307.2020.6 “Eye-tracking study of social attention coordination disorders in pre-school age”.
Date of publication
16.12.2021
Number of purchasers
6
Views
272
Readers community rating
0.0 (0 votes)
Previous versions
S020595920017070-3-1 Дата внесения правок в статью - 07.10.2021
Cite Download pdf

References

1. Adams R.B., Kleck R.E. Effects of direct and averted gaze on the perception of facially communicated emotion // Emotion. 2005. № 5. P. 3–11.

2. Baron-Cohen S. The extreme male brain theory of autism // Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 2002. № 6. P. 248–254.

3. Bruinsma Y., Koegel R.L., Koegel L.K. Joint attention and children with autism: a review of the literature // Ment Retard Dev Disabil Res Rev. 2004. № 10. P. 169–175.

4. Carpenter M., Nagell K., Tomasello M. Social cognition, joint attention, and communicative competence from 9- to 15-months of age // Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 1998. P. 1–63.

5. Charman T., Swettenham J., Baron-Cohen S., Baird G., Cox A., Drew A. Testing joint attention, imitation, and play as infancy precursors to language and theory of mind // Cognitive Development. 2001. № 15. P. 481–498.

6. Charwarska K., Klin A., Volkmar F. Automatic attention cuing through eye movement in 2-year-old-children with autism // Child Development. 2003. № 74. P. 1108–1122.

7. Dawson G., Jones E.J., Merkle K. Early behavioral intervention is associated with normalized brain activity in young children with autism // Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2012. № 51(11). P. 1150–1159.

8. Dierkes K., Kassner M., Bulling A. A novel approach to single camera, glint-free 3D eye model tting including corneal refraction. Proceedings of the 2018 // ETRA '18: Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications. 2018. № 9. P. 1–9.

9. Elsabbagha M., Johnsonb M.H. Autism and the social Brain: the first-year puzzle // Biol Psychiatry. 2016. № 80(2). P. 94–99.

10. Falck-Ytter T., von Hofsten C. How special is social looking in ASD: a review // Prog Brain Res. 2011. № 189. P. 209–222.

11. Gillespie-Lynch K., Elias R., Escudero P., Hutman T., Johnson S.P. Atypical gaze following in autism: a comparison of three potential mechanisms // Autism Dev Disord. 2013. № 43. P. 2779–2792.

12. Grossmann T., Johnson M. The development of the social brain in human infancy // The European journal of neuroscience. 2007. № 25. P. 909–919.

13. Guillon Q., Hadjikhani N., Baduel S., Rogé B. Visual social attention in autism spectrum disorder: Insights from eye tracking studies // Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 2014. № 42. P. 279–297.

14. Henderson J.M., Williams C.C., Falk R.J. Eye movements are functional during face learning // Mem. Cognit. 2005. № 33. P. 98–106.

15. Jermann P., Nüssli M.-A., Li W. Using dual eye-tracking to unveil coordination and expertise in collaborative Tetris // In T. McEwan, L.M. McKinnon, Proceedings of the 24th BCS Interaction Specialist Group Conference. 2010. Р. 36–44.

16. Johnson L., Sullivan B., Hayhoe M., Ballard D. Predicting human visuomotor behaviour in a driving task. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society // Biological Sciences. 2014. № 369(1636). P. 20130044.

17. Klin A., Jones W., Schultz R., Volkmar F., Cohen D. Visual fixation patterns during viewing of naturalistic social situations as predictors of social competence in individuals with autism // Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2002. № 59(9). P. 809–816.

18. Morales M., Mundy P., Crowson M., Neal R., Delgado C. Individual differences in infant attention skills, joint attention, and emotion regulation behavior // International Journal of Behavioral Development. 2005. № 29. P. 259–263.

19. Mundy P. A Review of joint attention and social — cognitive brain systems in typical development and autism spectrum disorder // European Journal of Neuroscience. 2018. № 47(6). P. 497–514.

20. Navab A., Gillespie-Lynch K., Johnson S.P., Sigman M., Hutman T. Eye-tracking as a measure of responsiveness to joint attention in infants at risk for autism // Infancy. 2012. № 17 (4). P. 416–431.

21. Ozonoff S. Components of executive function in autism and other disorders / Autism as an executive disorder (ed.) J. Russell // Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1997. P. 179–211.

22. Pierce K., Conant D., Hazin R., Stoner R., Desmond J. Preference for geometric patterns early in life as a risk factor for autism // Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2011. № 68(1). P. 101–109.

23. Presmanes A.G., Walden T.A., Stone W.L., Yoder P.J. Effects of different attentional cues on responding to joint attention in younger siblings of children with autism spectrum disorders // Autism Dev Disord. 2007. № 37. P. 133–144.

24. Richardson D.C., Dale R., Kirkham N.Z. The art of conversation is coordination // Psychological Science. 2007. № 18(5). P. 407–413.

25. Ruffman T., Garnham W., Rideout P. Social understanding in autism: eye gaze as a measure of core insights // Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2001. № 42(8). P. 1083–1094.

26. Salvucci D.D., Goldberg J.H. Identifying fixations and saccades in eye-tracking protocols // Proceedings of the 2000 symposium on Eye tracking research & applications (ETRA '00). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. 2000. P. 71–78.

27. Senju A., Csibra G. Gaze following in human infants depends on communicative signals // Curr Biol. 2008. № 18(9). P. 668–671.

28. Sheinkopf S., Mundy P., Claussen A., Willoughby J. Infant joint attention skill and preschool behavioral outcomes in at-risk children // Development and Psychopathology. 2004. № 16. P. 273–293.

29. Shic F., Bradshaw J, Klin A, Scassellati B, Chawarska K. Limited activity monitoring in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder // Brain Res. 2011. № 1380. P. 246–254.

30. Sigman M., Ruskin E. Continuity and change in the social competence of children with autism, Down syndrome, and developmental delays // Monogr Soc Res Child Dev. 1999. № 64(1). P.100–114.

31. Smith L., Ulvund L. The role of joint attention in later development among preterm children: Linkages between early and middle childhood // Social Development. 2003. № 1. P. 222–234.

32. Swirski L., Dodgson N.A. A fully-automatic, temporal approach to single camera, Glint-Free 3D Eye Model Fitting // Proceedings of ECEM 2013. 2013. P. 1–10.

33. Tomasello M. A Natural History of Human Morality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2016.

34. von Hofsten C. Action, the Foundation for Cognitive Development // Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 2009. № 51. P.1–7.

35. Weigelt S., Koldewyn K., Kanwisher N. Face identity recognition in autism spectrum disorders: a review of behavioral studies // Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2012. № 36(3). P. 1060–1084.

36. Yoder P., Symons F.J. Observational Measurement of Behavior. New York: Springer. 2010.

37. Yu C., Smith L.B. Hand–eye coordination predicts joint attention // Child Development. 2017. № 88(6). P. 2060–2078.

Comments

No posts found

Write a review
Translate