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Table 3 Correlations between visual attention and emotional reactivity

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

 

Familiar

Unfamiliar

 

Peak amplitude

Peak latency

Peak amplitude

Peak latency

ASD group

    

Neutral face

.28 (.18)

-.08 (-.07)

.20 (.07)

.05 (.24)

Neutral eyes

.24 (.19)

-.09 (-.08)

-.08 (-.17)

.04 (.12)

Neutral mouth

.13 (-.007)

.002 (.02)

.32 (.29)

.17 (.21)

Fearful face

.51* (.44*)

-.17 (-.17)

.18 (.13)

-.07 (-.02)

Fearful eyes

.64** (.60**)

-.34 (-.34)

.07 (-.01)

-.21 (-.16)

Fearful mouth

.07 (-.001)

.10 (.11)

.27 (.28)

.20 (.21)

TD group

    

Neutral face

.12 (.10)

.17 (.11)

-.002 (-.005)

.25 (.26)

Neutral eyes

-.23 (-.23)

.09 (.08)

-.18 (-.18)

.33 (.32)

Neutral mouth

.32 (.32)

.14 (.06)

.11 (.10)

.05 (.07)

Fearful face

.23 (.22)

.43^ (.37)

.04 (.03)

-.17 (-.16)

Fearful eyes

-.16 (-.19)

.23 (.17)

-.14 (-.15)

-.31 (-.30)

Fearful mouth

.44* (.44*)

.38^ (.33)

.24 (.23)

.09 (.10)

  1. The visual attention variable was Fixation Counts (100 ms visual attention). Each Fixation Count variable is only correlated with the corresponding familiarity level of Peak Amplitude/Peak Latency (for example, the correlation between Unfamiliar Peak Amplitude and Fear FACE is only Fear FACE on the Unfamiliar condition (not a composite score of the Unfamiliar and Familiar conditions). Face area of interest (AOI) = eye AOI + mouth AOI. The table shows Pearson correlations (two-tailed) between visual attention (fixation counts) and emotional reactivity, as indexed by peak amplitude and peak latency. The r-values for partial correlations, controlling for the effect of cognitive ability (MSEL standard score), are in parentheses, and r-values outside parentheses are without controlling for this effect. Significant correlations (α = .05) are in bold type. **P < .01, *P < .05, ^P < .10.