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High-functioning autism

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Investigating Gaze of Children with ASD in Naturalistic Settings

Aude Billard, Nouchine Hadjikhani, Basilio Noris

Background: Visual behavior is known to be atypical in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Monitor-based eye-tracking studies have measured several of these atypicalities in individuals with Autism. While atypical behaviors are known to be accentuated during ...

Public Library of Science2012

The missing social instinct : behavioral and functional brain imaging investigations in autism

Smooth social interactions in everyday life rely on spontaneous understanding of emotions and intentions of others, conveyed by subtle social cues, such as gaze and facial expressions. In individuals with autism, however, who represent close to 1% of the p ...

EPFL2012

Measuring Gaze of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Naturalistic Interactions

Aude Billard, Basilio Noris

In this paper, we report on a study on gaze behavior by children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) during a dyadic interaction in a naturalistic environment. Twelve children with ASD were contrasted to twelve typically developing (TD) children, in a semi ...

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Machine Vision-Based Analysis of Gaze and Visual Context : an Application to Visual Behavior of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Basilio Noris

Visual behavior, and specifically gaze directed at objects and people, is a fundamental cue for understanding how children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) experience and respond to social interaction. Indeed atypical behaviors such as averting the gaze ...

EPFL2011

Body expressions of emotion do not trigger fear contagion in autism spectrum disorder

Nouchine Hadjikhani

Although there is evidence of emotion perception deficits in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), research on this topic has been mostly confined to perception of emotions in faces. Using behavioral measures and 3T functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), ...

Oxford University Press2009

Abnormal fear conditioning and amygdala processing in an animal model of autism

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Henry Markram, Kamila Markram, Tania Rinaldi, Deborah La Mendola

A core feature of autism spectrum disorders is the impairment in social interactions. Among other brain regions, a deficit in amygdala processing has been suggested to underlie this impairment, but whether the amygdala is processing fear abnormally in auti ...

Nature Publishing Group2008

Hyper-connectivity and hyper-plasticity in the medial prefrontal cortex in the valproic Acid animal model of autism

Henry Markram, Tania Rinaldi

The prefrontal cortex has been extensively implicated in autism to explain deficits in executive and other higher-order functions related to cognition, language, sociability and emotion. The possible changes at the level of the neuronal microcircuit are ho ...

2008

fMRI activation during a language task in adolescents with ASD

Nouchine Hadjikhani

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by language and communication impairments, social impairments, and repetitive behaviors or restricted interests. Previous Studies of semantic functions have found differences in ...

Cambridge University Press2008

Analysis of Head Mounted Wireless Camera Videos for Early Diagnosis of Autism

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Aude Billard, Julien Meynet, Basilio Noris

In this paper we present a computer based approach to analysis of social interaction experiments for the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders in young children of 6-18 months of age. We apply face detection on videos from a head-mounted wireless camera t ...

Springer-Verlag2007

The intense world syndrome – an alternative hypothesis for autism

Henry Markram, Kamila Markram, Tania Rinaldi

Autism is a devastating neurodevelopmental disorder with a polygenetic predisposition that seems to be triggered by multiple environmental factors during embryonic and/or early postnatal life. While significant advances have been made in identifying the ne ...

2007