Does decreased visual attention to faces underlie difficulties interpreting eye gaze cues in autism?

ConclusionsReduced visual attention to faces does not appear to contribute to atypical processing of eye gaze cues among adolescents with ASD. Instead, the difficulty for individuals with ASD is related to understanding the social communicative aspects of eye gaze information, which may not be extracted from visual cues alone.
Source: Molecular Autism - Category: Molecular Biology Source Type: research