Fig. 3.

Conscious GCE and its relationship with autistic traits and ASD. (A) When the schematic face was upright (left plane), the visible gaze cues effectively induced a cueing effect and this effect was not significantly affected by face orientation and SOA (right plane). (B) The cue congruency effect was marginally significant in autistic adults. (C) Both the children with low and high autistic traits exhibited a significant cueing effect at the SOA of 200 ms. (D) The bars display the conscious GCEs for adults (collapsed across the SOAs of 300 and 600 ms) and children (at the SOA of 200 ms), showing no significant differences among the groups. (E) The scatterplots demonstrate the correlations between the conscious GCE at the SOA of 600 ms with AQ scores, providing a comparison to the unconscious GCE. The triangle markers in the line graph indicate the levels of SOA used for between-group analysis of the GCEs. Error bars represent SEM. *P < 0.05, corrected for multiple comparisons.