Early autism diagnosis - shaping the future with eye tracking
Prof. Dr. Karen Pierce describes her breakthrough findings enabling early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder with the help of eye tracking technology.
Learn moreEye tracking enhances the developmental study of infants, as well as children with short attention spans and limited instruction comprehension. The technology provides insights into the behavioral and cognitive processes long before speaking begins.
Eye tracking can aid in early screening and identification of developmental conditions, such as autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Differences in attentional processes and eye gaze patterns during social interaction can indicate developmental challenges, which can be assessed with eye tracking.
Discover how Tobii eye trackers are used in the study of autism.
Prof. Dr. Karen Pierce describes her breakthrough findings enabling early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder with the help of eye tracking technology.
Learn moreIn this scientific publication, learn how experts have found that children’s lack of attention to motherese can be used for early detection of ASD.
Learn moreIn this brief talk Dr. Thompson shares videos and data of the exploratory and experimental investigations and discuss ways to improve the process in the future.
Learn moreIn a research project aimed at developing an objective index to identify autism in patients, subjects were recorded with Tobii Pro eye trackers while viewing video clips. By analyzing gaze patterns, researchers developed a quantitative method to help diagnose autism.
Learn moreAn online symposium where three esteemed researchers present their work with eye tracking in the field of autism study.
Learn moreIn this panel discussion, research experts from Stanford School of Medicine, Uppsala University, and Karolinska Institute shared their experiences with the unique insights eye tracking provides in the field of autism and answered audience questions.
Learn moreResearchers employ eye tracking to investigate the gaze patterns of infants and children when exposed to different linguistic stimuli, including spoken words or visual scenes. The technology provides valuable insights into the cognitive processes associated with language acquisition, including visual attention, word recognition, and syntax comprehension.
Discover how Tobii eye trackers are used to study language acquisition.
Prof. Dr. Nivedita Mani sheds light on the complex mechanisms behind language acquisition and how eye tracking empowers research in her baby lab.
Learn moreThe Rochester Baby Lab used eye tracking to test whether infants could make use of the information contained in speech disfluencies, such as "uh" and "um".
Learn moreTo further explore how language acquisition relates to emotional state, Dr. Vivien Outters, with her colleagues in Göttingen and Oxford University, conducted a word-learning recognition experiment with 3-year-old children.
Learn moreNew York University’s Learn Lab uses eye tracking to study the learning mechanisms underlying language acquisition in children who are typically developing as well as children on the autism spectrum.
Learn moreAckermann and colleagues (2019) examined how a child's interest in a particular category of objects — such as animals or vehicles — impacts learning robustness of new word-object associations. They used pupillometry measurements to determine the level of interest in categories and objects and proportion-of-gaze time to target and measure word recognition.
Thiele and colleagues (2020) studied selective learning in 13-month-old infants. Using screen-based eye tracking, the researchers identified faster saccadic latencies and more predictive gaze shifts in trials that included social interaction compared with those that didn’t. These findings support the view that infants find it intrinsically valuable to observe social interactions.
Alarifi and colleagues (2023) studied gaze patterns associated with autism spectrum disorder in the Arabic population. They used Tobii Pro Fusion in joint attention and face perception tasks. The autism group displayed differences in joint attention and left visual field bias compared to the control group. The results of this study show the potential of eye tracing-based biomarkers for autism diagnosis in an under-researched geographical context.
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Social cognition and interaction
Social cognition and interaction
Eye tracking provides a means to study the emergence and progression of social cognition and interaction skills. Through eye tracking experiments, researchers can learn about infant attention to social stimuli, face processing, and social learning abilities. It helps researchers uncover critical developmental milestones and understand typical and atypical social development.
Use cases
Discover how Tobii eye trackers are used in social cognition and interaction research studies.
Eye tracking reveals insight into infants social information processing skills
In this presentation, Dr. Sheila Krogh-Jespersen presents evidence showing the development of social competence as revealed from the combination of eye-tracking and behavioral studies.
Learn moreEye tracking explains development of infants’ abilities
Eye tracking is used in developmental psychology to explain infants' growth and transformation in cognitive, social and emotional abilities.
Learn moreThree scientific studies shed new light on early learning processes
Researchers use attention computing to reveal the impact on how kids learn of: attention bias to faces, individual preferences, and social interaction.
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