Autistic boys and men are less attuned to social stimuli than autistic girls and women are, according to new unpublished work.

So-called ‘baby sibs’ watch adults’ faces just as much as children without autistic siblings do, but they don’t understand spoken language as well.

A new eye-tracking program for VR headsets captures nuanced aspects of social attention in autistic people.

A mobile phone app that tracks a toddler’s gaze as she watches short videos can distinguish between children who later receive an autism diagnosis and those who do not according to a new study.

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A new machine-learning tool detects eye contact during recorded face-to-face interactions as accurately as expert observers can.

Looking at eyes, noses and mouths may prompt slower recognition in the brains of autistic people than in those of non-autistic people.

A new eye-tracking study highlights how social cues shape attention differently in people with and without autism.

Neurotypical adults change how they view social scenes over time in a way that autistic adults do not, reflecting different underlying mechanisms of social attention.

A pair of tools that gauge social abilities in rhesus macaques may help researchers study autism-like behaviors in monkeys.