Social COgnition Screening

N/ANot Yet RecruitingNCT07377227

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Amiens128 enrolled

Overview

Social cognition refers to the mental processes involved in social interactions, including social perception, motivation, communication, emotion recognition, and theory of mind. Face perception plays a key role in children's social development, but children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) tend to look less at social stimuli, especially faces, than typically developing (TD) peers. Eye-tracking studies highlight these visual exploration differences, linked to difficulties in joint attention, emotion recognition, and theory of mind, as well as in executive and memory functions. Standard diagnostic tests often require active participation and sufficient language, which makes assessment challenging for children with ASD and additional cognitive or language impairments. This research project investigates how visual activity supports social cognition depending on cognitive and language levels, hypothesizing that eye-tracking can provide useful indicators for ASD screening and diagnosis.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

128

Conditions

Eye-tracking Autism Spectrum Disorder Social Cognition

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 4 YearsMax age: 10 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * ASD Group: * Boys or girls diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (based on clinical tools and observations) * Aged between 4 and 10 years old * Affiliation with a social security scheme * Informed consent of those with parental authority * DT Group: * Boys or girls * Aged between 4 and 10 * Attending school in the Hauts-de-France region * Affiliation with a social security scheme * Consent of those with parental authority Exclusion Criteria: * For ASD: Uncorrected visual or auditory impairments. * For DT: Intellectual disability, neurological or genetic disorders, autistic traits reported by teachers. The discrepancy between actual age and abilities calculated on the basis of standardised test scores

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

differences in visual exploration patterns between both groups

Differences in visual exploration patterns between both groups Visual exploration patterns are determined with TOM Test Battery, PPVT-5, Raven's 2 and FEE tests

Time frame: 2 years

Classification performance of machine learning algorithms in distinguishing ASD from TD

Time frame: 2 years

Secondary Outcomes

Correlations between eye-tracking measures and cognitive scores

Eye-tracking patterns are determined with TOM Test Battery, PPVT-5, Raven's 2 and FEE tests

Time frame: 2 years

Developmental trajectory analysis in TD children

Time frame: 2 years

Identification of cognitive subgroups within ASD group

Time frame: 2 years

Social COgnition Screening

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