Getting a Grip on Social Gaze: Control over Others’ Gaze Helps Gaze Detecti…

Abstract We investigated the influence of control over a social stimulus on the ability to detect direct gaze in highfunctioning autism (HFA). In a pilot study, 19 participants with and 19 without HFA were compared on a gaze detection and a gaze setting task. Participants with HFA were less accurate in detecting direct gaze in the detection task, but did not differ in their ability to establi…