Filippo Muratori

TL;DR: The authors pose some hypotheses about a specific early-appearing impairment of attention in ASD in which children shift their spontaneous attention mainly toward nonsocial stimuli rather than toward social stimuli.

TL;DR: Based on their importance for both early development and for building autonomous robots that have humanlike abilities, imitation, joint attention and interactive engagement are key issues in the development of assistive robotics for autism and must be the focus of further research.

TL;DR: The purpose was to provide an update of the evidence accumulated by reviewing all of the empirical or experimental studies that have been published since 1966 on IDS driving factors and impacts to suggest IDS is part of an interactive loop that may play an important role in infants’ cognitive and social development.

TL;DR: In girls, prevalence estimates increased significantly with age; furthermore, living with a single parent, low level of maternal education, and low family income were associated with a higher likelihood of suffering from emotional or behavioral problems.

TL;DR: Altered lateralized neurodevelopment may be a feature of ASD, affecting widespread brain regions with diverse functions, and particularly in medial frontal, orbitofrontal, cingulate and inferior temporal areas.