期刊名称：Revue de Neuropsychologie Neurosciences Cognitives et Cliniques
印刷版ISSN：2101-6739
电子版ISSN：2102-6025
出版年度：2017
卷号：9
期号：1
页码：45-52
DOI：10.1684/nrp.2017.0409
出版社：John Libbey Eurotext
摘要：Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are characterized by disruptions of social interactions and communication, associated with restricted behaviors and interests. The fifth version of the DSM includes an atypical sensory and perceptual processing as a new diagnostic criterion that would participate to the autistic behavioral and cognitive phenotypes. Eye-tracking technologies measure eye activity using a variety of cues and are based on increasingly sophisticated and precise analysis methods. They provide new insights into the impact of perceptual particularities of people with ASD on their cognitive functioning, including social, attentional and memory abilities discussed in this article. The results of these studies reveal that people with ASD have singular visual exploration strategies characterized by a gaze focusing on details that are irrelevant to the understanding of a social scene or the emotional recognition of a face. These visual strategies delay the attentional disengagement required to access to an overview of information and have an impact on encoding processes in episodic memory. These interesting non-invasive techniques may also be used to analyze social interactions in natural environments and cognitive remediation.
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