Social attention during object engagement: toward a cross-species measure of preferential social orienting

ConclusionsThis work suggests that a brief behavioral measure pitting a high-interest nonsocial stimulus against the innate draw of social partners can serve as a feasible cross-species measure of social orienting, with implications for genetically informative behavioral phenotyping of social deficits in ASD and other neurodevelopmental disorders.

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Source: Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders - December 14, 2022 Category: Neurology Source Type: research