Intentional interactions with autistic people led Sasson to refocus his research.

In this edition, a strategy to help autistic children adapt their skills to new situations shows no benefit, but an early-life autism biomarker does.

The app relies on artificial intelligence and could help researchers standardize studies of pupil differences in autistic people and in mouse models of autism.

Integrating genetic analyses into studies of babies’ brain development could help us understand how autism-related genes contribute to autism traits.

How autistic people look at a face may be linked more to alexithymia, a condition marked by difficulties recognizing one’s own emotions, than to autism.

Autistic boys and men are less attuned to social stimuli than autistic girls and women are, according to new unpublished work.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