A common feature of autism spectrum disorder, ASD, is reduced eye contact with others in natural conditions. Although eye contact is a critically important part of everyday interactions, scientists ...

An infant watches a screen during an eye-tracking session. Photo by Kay Hinton/Emory University An infant’s eye contact may be a clue into whether the child develops autism, a study published ...

A news story about a Society for Neuroscience conference report on the discovery of "eye cell" neurons that register eye contact says: This new type of neuron was discovered in a Rhesus macaque. If ...

Maintaining eye contact can sometimes be difficult for autistic folks. Practice and therapy can help, but they’re not the only way to build relationships. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a term used ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alison Escalante M.D. covers neurodiversity, pediatrics and parenting. As the weeks of social distancing drag on, most of us have ...

You can usually tell you’re starting to bore someone because their eyes will shift away from you and they’ll no longer return your gaze. Aligning pupils with someone might seem like an improbable way ...

There's a reason your mother told you to look people in the eye when you talk to them: eye contact conveys important social cues. Yet when someone holds your gaze for more than a few seconds, the ...

One of the smartest people I know — we’ll call her Michelle — sucks at maintaining eye contact. Even though eye contact ranks high on the average list of tips for how to make a good first impression.