Emotion- and Region-Specific Gaze Differences in Parents of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

A study using eyetracking compared visual attention patterns in parents of children with ASD versus parents of typically developing children while viewing emotional faces. Parents of children with ASD showed selective increased attention to the mouth region specifically when viewing threat-related emotions (anger, fear), suggesting emotion- and region-specific gaze allocation differences rather than generalized attentional changes.