Titre :

Eye-tracking-based experimental paradigm to assess social-emotional abilities in young individuals with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities.

Auteur(s) :

Cavadini, Thalia [Auteur]
Université de Genève = University of Geneva [UNIGE]
Courbois, Yannick [Auteur]
Psychologie : Interactions, Temps, Émotions, Cognition (PSITEC) - ULR 4072
Gentaz, Edouard [Auteur]
Université de Genève = University of Geneva [UNIGE]

Titre de la revue :

PLoS ONE

Nom court de la revue :

PLoS One

Numéro :

17

Pagination :

e0266176

Éditeur :

Enkelejda Kasneci, University of Tübingen, GERMANY

Date de publication :

2022-04-14

ISSN :

1932-6203

Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :

Attention
Blindness
Child
Disabled Persons
Emotions
Eye-Tracking Technology
Humans
Intellectual Disability

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences cognitives

Résumé en anglais : [en]

Individuals with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities (PIMD) experience a combination of severe cognitive and motor impairments frequently associated with additional sensory deficits and numerous medical disorders. ...
Lire la suite >Individuals with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities (PIMD) experience a combination of severe cognitive and motor impairments frequently associated with additional sensory deficits and numerous medical disorders. The purpose of the present study was to propose an experimental paradigm based on eye-tracking that combines various pre-existing tasks from infancy research as an assessment tool. This would enable the investigation of social-emotional abilities in nine young individuals with PIMD through their visual preferences for different types of stimuli. The first objective was to test the feasibility of this paradigm, by expecting individuals to look more at the tasks’ presentation screen than elsewhere during its implementation. The second objective was to investigate whether PIMD individuals exhibit visual preferences for (a) biological (vs. non-biological) motion, (b) socially salient (vs. non-social) scenes, (c) the facial area of the eyes (vs. the mouth), (d) happy (vs. angry) faces, (e) objects of joint attention (vs. non-looked at ones), and for (f) prosocial (vs. anti-social) behaviors similar to those of a control group of typically developing children aged two years on average. Overall, the feasibility of this paradigm proved to be good, resulting in high individual looking rates that were not affected by the presentation or the content of the tasks. Analyses of individual social-emotional abilities, supported by the visual preference patterns of each PIMD individual, firstly revealed strong—but expected—variability both within and between subjects, and secondly highlighted some individual task-specific abilities although few similarities between these individual results and those of the control group were found. These findings underline the great relevance of using this type of paradigm for assessing PIMD individuals and thus contribute to a better understanding of their social and emotional developmentLire moins >

Comité de lecture :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Établissement(s) :

Université de Lille

Collections :

• Psychologie : Interactions, Temps, Émotions, Cognition (PSITEC) - ULR 4072

Équipe(s) de recherche :

Développement & Handicap

Date de dépôt :

2022-10-06T15:36:03Z
2022-10-12T07:45:12Z