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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Autism Res. 2013 May 20;6(5):10.1002/aur.1302. doi: 10.1002/aur.1302

Table 2.

Effects of Diagnostic Group, Social Anxiety and Age on Social Orienting and Attention Disengagement to the Five Avatar Position in the Baseline Condition

Avatar Position
Group Center Behind First Second Third
SOCIAL ORIENTING
HFASD Low SA 12.8 (9.4) 7.9 (4.3) 4.9 (2.1) 3.0 (1.6) 1.2 (0.8)
TD Low SA 10.9 (5.9) 6.4 (4.2) 4.6 (3.0) 3.5 (1.9) 1.3 (1.1)
HFASD High SA 8.5 (4.1) 5.6 (3.5) 4.9 (3.4) 2.9 (2.3) 1.1 (1.3)
TD High SA 10.3 (6.8) 7.0 (5.3) 5.6 (3.0) 3.5 (2.5) 1.3 (0.9)
ATTENTION DISENGAGEMENT
Younger Age Group
HFASD Low SA 1.4 (0.8) 0.4 (0.5) 2.2 (0.9) 1.3 (0.4) 1.1 (1.0)
TD Low SA 1.2 (0.8) 0.6 (0.4) 2.7 (1.6) 1.7 (1.4) 0.9 (1.0)
HFASD High SA 0.9 (1.1) 0.7 (0.9) 3.2 (3.1) 1.6 (1.6) 0.9 (1.1)
TD High SA 0.9 (1.0) 0.5 (0.2) 3.3 (1.6) 1.3 (1.0) 1.2 (0.8)
Older Age Group
HFASD Low SA 1.3 (0.7) 0.8 (0.8) 3.7 (1.5) 2.3 (1.2) 0.6 (0.5)
TD Low SA 1.6 (0.9 ) 0.7 (0.5) 3.0 (2.5) 2.3 (1.6) 1.2 (1.0)
HFASD High SA 3.3 (3.1) 0.6 (0.3) 3.4 (1.1) 2.4 (1.5) 0.7 (0.6)
TD High SA 1.7 (1.2) 1.0 (0.8) 2.9 (2.1) 2.1 (1.4) 0.9 (0.8)

Marginal means with Full Scale IQ as the covariate. Social Orienting = the number of avatar fixations. Attention Disengagement = the average duration of stimulus fixation in seconds. SA = Social Anxiety.