An Eye Movements Study on the Perception of Threat through the Environment-picture Task among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

LIN YunQiang

Journal of Psychological Science ›› 2014, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (2) : 349-356.

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Journal of Psychological Science ›› 2014, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (2) : 349-356.

An Eye Movements Study on the Perception of Threat through the Environment-picture Task among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

  • LIN YunQiang
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To study the perception of threat through enironment-picture task, 30 children with autism spectrum disorders(ASD) participated in the exprimental research, and their eye movements were recorded with a Tobii X120 eyetracher. The results indicated that (1)children with ASD showed a perceptive advantage for threating targets, which was affected by the types of stimulating sources and the size of matrix in a certain degree, especially in the small size matrix of environment-picture task. (2)Children with ASD showed a fixed-attention to picture displaying an all-threating negative environment. Compared to other environmental picture, children with ASD were took more fixation duration time in the all-threating negative enviroment picture in the small size matirix task. (3)Eye-tracker technology can be effectively applied to the study of perception of threat in children with ASD, which could be provided more important reference material to the further research.

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children with autism spectrum disorders / perception of threat / environment-picture task / eye movements study

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LIN YunQiang. An Eye Movements Study on the Perception of Threat through the Environment-picture Task among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders[J]. Journal of Psychological Science. 2014, 37(2): 349-356
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