Figure 1: Stimuli and experimental results for high-risk (HR) and low-risk (LR) newborns.
From: Difference in Visual Social Predispositions Between Newborns at Low- and High-risk for Autism
Each newborn was presented with four different visual preference tasks (A–D) in a random order. The main results for each group are expressed as the percentage of visual preference and percentage of the total number of fixations for a given stimulus (Mean ± SEM). Since we were interested in revealing predictors for the HR group, here we presented the percentage of preference and the percentage of the number of fixations towards the non-social stimuli as follows: (A) Inverted face-like pattern, (B) Averted eye-gaze, (C) Random motion pattern, and (D) Rigid motion pattern. Please note that (B) represents images similar to the stimuli used for the Adverted eye-gaze condition. Due to this Journal’s policy on permission for publication consent, it was not possible to publish the original stimuli. For the original stimuli please see Farroni et al.15. Significant differences between the two groups of participants are evident in the percentage of preference and number of fixations toward the inverted face-like pattern (p = 0.016 and p = 0.041 respectively), and in the percentage of preference and number of fixations toward the random motion pattern (p = 0.032 and p = 0.034 respectively) (all highlighted with red circles). Dashed lines indicate chance level (50%) (See also Supplementary Information).
