An integrated EEG and eye-tracking approach for the study of responding and initiating joint attention in Autism Spectrum Disorders

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 13560 - 13
• Main Authors: Billeci, Lucia, Narzisi, Antonio, Tonacci, Alessandro, Sbriscia-Fioretti, Beatrice, Serasini, Luca, Fulceri, Francesca, Apicella, Fabio, Sicca, Federico, Calderoni, Sara, Muratori, Filippo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 19.10.2017; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/378/2649/1310; 692/699/476/1373; Attention - physiology; Autism; Autism Spectrum Disorder - diagnosis; Autism Spectrum Disorder - physiopathology; Brain - physiology; Child; Children; EEG; Electroencephalography; Eye; Eye - physiopathology; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Male; multidisciplinary; Neural networks; Photic Stimulation; Pilot Projects; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Visual perception

Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are characterised by impairment in joint attention (JA), which has two components: the response to JA and the initiation of JA. Literature suggests a correlation between JA and neural circuitries, although this link is still largely unexplored in ASD. In this pilot st...