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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Social Attention"”.
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Neuroethology of Social Attention in Primates
<p>To solicit the attention or determine the intentions of another, we use our eyes. While many animals appear to use eyes as an important behavioral cue, for humans, these cues are especially critical. The power of the eyes to attract and direct attention shapes human behavior from an early age …
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Music and Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Potential Autonomic Mechanisms of Social Attention Improvement
… 2009). Although children with ASD struggle with social interactions, quantitative meta-analyses have revealed that traditional social skill interventions only produce minimal effects (Bellini, Peters, Benner, & Hopf, 2007). Due to these minimal effects, this study diverged from the common …
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A Component Analysis of the Effects of Contingent Social Attention on Stereotypic Behavior in Blind Retardates
The problem: The components comprising contingent social attention were examined for their effects on stereotypic behaviors in blind retardates. Procedure: Social attention was tested as a positive reinforcer for three blind institutionalized retardates before treatment conditions began. The effect …
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Social Attention in Diverse Social Worlds: Biculturalism, Racial Diversity, and Regional Culture Shape Gaze Cueing Behaviour
Observing a directional gaze triggers an attention shift in the same direction as that gaze, also known as gaze cueing. Given that gaze cueing has been observed in human infants and monkeys, it is considered a universally evolved mechanism that provides the foundation for learning about one’s …
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The role of caregiver-reported emerging social attention in predicting duration of orienting and social communication
… developmental outcomes. Early signs of atypical attention, social attention, and social communication development emerge in infancy, yet age at diagnosis of neurodevelopmental difficulties does not typically occur until well after the first year of life. In order to achieve this goal of early …
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Social Attention in Young Typically Developing and At-Risk Children: Eye Tracking Paradigms and Implications for Understanding Developmental Trajectories
… behaviors forms one of the basic foundations of social cognition in infants. Thus, diminished eye gaze in individuals is known to be an early behavioral risk marker for autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Research studies in ASD have shown numerous advances; however, the field still lacks a …
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The Effects of Graduated Exposure, Modeling, and Contingent Social Attention on Tolerance to Skin Care Products with Children Who Have Autism.
… of graduated exposure, modeling and contingent social attention on tolerance to skincare products were evaluated with two boys with autism who displayed tactile defensiveness. Upon each presentation step of skincare products the number of positive and negative responses and successful step …
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Relating Infants' Social Engagement Profiles to Individual Differences in Language Outcomes
Social engagement has been clearly associated with socio-developmental outcomes in clinical and at-risk populations of infants, who show deficits in gaze following, face processing, and joint attention. Importantly, these are all skills related to language learning. This is most prominently …
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Gaze selection in the real world : finding evidence for a preferential selection of eyes
… strong intuition that people's eyes are unique, socially informative stimuli. As such, it is reasonable to propose that humans have developed a fundamental tendency to preferentially attend to eyes in the environment. The empirical evidence to support this intuition is, however, remarkably thin. …
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A therapeutic landscape created by the children's Comprehensive Health Investment Project of the Roanoke Valley
In the United States, political and social attention to child health care remains insufficient, as it has for decades, especially that which serves the needs of low-income families. In response to this widespread negligence, many communities around the country have developed innovative programs to …
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Face-to-face interactions and the use of gaze in autism spectrum disorders
… This has been thought to contribute to wider social and emotional difficulties. However, it is unclear whether the reported deficits in gaze can be generalised to real-world interactions. Method: A systematic review was conducted on studies that explored the use of gaze during face-to-face …
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Look Who's Talking : mechanisms for sharing interpersonal context and social titles as awareness information
… (LWT) that aims to transcend the user's various social settings and social groups. Among its novel features is the ability to grant 'episodic access' to the device owner's context information in circumstances where their day-today access settings do not suffice. This is achieved by way of an …
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Effects of Social Reinforcement Versus Tokens on the Spontaneous Speech of Preschoolers
… of contingent tokens versus contingent adult attention were tested on the number of tacts emitted in three different experimental settings, using an alternating treatment design. In Experiment II, the effects of contingent tokens versus contingent adult attention were tested on the number of …
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Framing Crime: An Analysis of News Media Twitter Data
With the increased social attention to active shooting events in the United States, news outlets are featuring news briefs through social media platforms like Twitter. Using this method of information sharing, news organizations can instantly reach consumers as events unfold in real time. With …
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Does Infants' Socially-guided Attention Uniquely Predict Language Development?
… of this study was to examine whether infants' social attention, as well as their joint attention behaviors uniquely predicted emerging language abilities. This longitudinal study examined attention regulation skills, joint attention behaviors, infants' expressive/receptive language (current), …
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Relationship between problem behaviors, function, and adaptive skills in individuals with intellectual disabilities
… also assessed the extent to which communication, socialization, and daily living skills predicted the presence of problem behaviors. The author found a significant multiple regression model that included all three domains, but the individual domains were not found to significantly predict problem …
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Understanding the embodied teacher : nonverbal cues for sociable robot learning
As robots enter the social environments of our workplaces and homes, it will be important for them to be able to learn from natural human teaching behavior. My research seeks to identify simple, non-verbal cues that human teachers naturally provide that are useful for directing the attention of …
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Young Adults' Social Interest in Complex Film Clips: Impact of Autism Characteristics
Deficits in social functioning in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be explained in part by the limited salience of or reward value associated with the social world, relative to individuals with typical development (e.g., Jones and Klin, 2008; Mundy, 1995; Mundy and Neal, 2005). …
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Black Men's Responsible Fatherhood Narratives: Fatherhood, Responsibility, Race, and Gender
… in this context, a considerable amount of social attention, this attention has come intertwined with considerable political and moral rhetoric at all levels, making an idea invested with a wide variety of often-conflicting meanings and interests.</p><p> Given the paucity of academic studies …
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Pattern codes for perceived gaze direction revealed by functional MRI
Perceiving the direction of another's attention is a critical component of normal social behaviour. Seminal electrophysiology studies demonstrated that single cells in macaque superior temporal sulcus (STS) are tuned to specific directions of social cues, including gaze direction, head view, and …
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