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Megan Freeth

Researcher at University of Sheffield

Publications -  46
Citations -  1457

Megan Freeth is an academic researcher from University of Sheffield. The author has contributed to research in topics: Autism & Neurotypical. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 37 publications receiving 1074 citations. Previous affiliations of Megan Freeth include University of Nottingham.

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Social attention with real versus reel stimuli: toward an empirical approach to concerns about ecological validity.

TL;DR: This review focuses on recent research in social attention that has involved stimuli ranging from simple schematic faces to real social interactions, and argues that exploring similarities and differences across these different types of social stimuli will provide new insights into social cognition and social neuroscience.
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What Affects Social Attention? Social Presence, Eye Contact and Autistic Traits

TL;DR: Analysis of patterns of eye-movements in response to strictly controlled video stimuli and natural real-world stimuli furthers the field's understanding of the factors that influence social attention.
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Do gaze cues in complex scenes capture and direct the attention of high functioning adolescents with ASD? Evidence from eye-tracking.

TL;DR: Although individuals with ASD were rapidly cued by the gaze direction of the person in the scene, this was not followed by an immediate increase in total fixation duration at the location of gaze, which was the case for typically developing individuals.
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‘I was exhausted trying to figure it out’: the experiences of females receiving an autism diagnosis in middle to late adulthood

TL;DR: The lived experiences of female adults diagnosed with an autism spectrum condition in middle to late adulthood are explored, highlighting several factors not previously identified that affect late diagnosis in females, including widespread limited understandings of others.
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A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Autistic Traits in the UK, India and Malaysia

TL;DR: Comparisons of the expression of autistic traits in a sample of neurotypical individuals from one Western culture (UK) and two Eastern cultures, using the Autism-spectrum Quotient (AQ), are made in order to identify possible cultural differences in the expressionof autistic traits.