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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet. 2023 Aug 3;193(3):e32058. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.c.32058

Table 4.

Descriptive statistics for webcam-collected performance measures across cases with and without Intellectual Disability (ID).

No ID
n=224
ID
n=151
M (sd) M (sd) Raw Δ t (p) Cohen’s d
Overall Attention (%) 82.1 (14) 70.5 (17) +11.6% (1.8 min total) 7.1 (<.001) .75
Attentional Scanning (Count) 11.6 (3.4) 7.9 (2.5) +3.7 glances to each target 9.9 (<.001) 1.20
Positive Emotion (%) 6.4 (8.7) 10.3 (9.1) −3.9% intensity −4.2 (<.001) −.44
Negative Emotion (%) 2.2 (3.0) 3.4 (4.1) −1.2% intensity −3.3 (.001) −.35
Social Attention (z) −.02 (1.0) −1.52 (1.3) +1.5 control SDs 11.9 (<.001) 1.14
Social Preference (FD) 1.4 (0.3) 1.2 (0.3) +0.2 seconds per AOI 6.0 (<.001) .68
Face Preference (FD) 1.3 (0.8) 0.8 (0.5) +0.5 seconds per AOI 6.1 (<.001) .70
Non-social Preference (FD) 1.1 (0.4) 1.2 (0.4) −0.1 seconds per AOI −2.1 (.038) −.24
Receptive Vocabulary (FD) 41.9 (25.7) 17.1 (13.6) +24.8 seconds to all targets 10.1 (<.001) 1.13
Speed to Faces (TFF) 7.2 (2.1) 8.0 (1.8) −0.8 seconds per AOI −3.3 (<.001) −.37
Speed to Object (TFF) 4.9 (1.3) 6.1 (1.2) −1.2 seconds per AOI −7.2 (<.001) −.87
Reading Accuracy (FD) 37.9 (22.8) 16.6 (14.1) +21.3 seconds to all targets 9.2 (<.001) 1.06

Note. ID=Intellectual disability (defined as parent-report of ID/GDD or estimated IQ<170). Overall attention (%) is the percentage of time on screen throughout all stimulus paradigms. Count=sum of glances to all targets averaged across stimuli. TFF=time to first fixation – values represent averages across all stimuli, including those that were not fixated where the length of the stimulus was imputed. AOI=area-of-interest. Values for positive and negative emotion represent estimated intensities with a range of 0–100%. Higher values are preferable for all measures except Speed to Faces and Speed to Objects where higher values indicate slower time to the AOIs, Non-Social Preference where higher values indicate a preference for non-social information, and Positive and Negative Emotion measures where higher scores simply indicate more expressiveness. Social attention is presented as a z-score (based on the neurotypical control mean) because this measure is created by averaging multiple different metrics (fixation duration, fixation count, and time-to-first fixation) after standardization.