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Table 1 Participant characteristics

From: Reactivity to fearful expressions of familiar and unfamiliar people in children with autism: an eye-tracking pupillometry study

 

ASD group (N = 21)§

TD group (N = 21)

t- value

P- value

Age (years): M (SD)

3.98 (1.05)

4.27 (0.60)

1.095

.28

Gender: M, F

18, 3

18, 3

-

-

MSEL, SS*: M (SD)

67.86 (23.53)

100.29 (16.41)

5.18

<.00

ADOS, SC†: M (SD)

13.81 (5.16)

-

-

-

ADOS, RRB††: M (SD)

3.48 (1.81)

-

-

-

  1. * Mullen Scales of Early Learning standard score (Early Learning Composite), † Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, Social-Communication Algorithm Total, †† Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, Restricted and Repetitive Behaviours Algorithm Total, § 21 children after exclusion of four children for low visual attention (<20%) to the stimuli. ASD, autism spectrum disorder; TD, typically developing