NCT07377227

Social COgnition Screening

Evaluation of Social Cognition: A New Screening Approach for Autism

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 128 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Amiens · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 4 Years – 10 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Social cognition refers to the mental processes involved in social interactions, including social perception, motivation, communication, emotion recognition, and theory of mind. Face perception plays a key role in children's social development, but children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) tend to look less at social stimuli, especially faces, than typically developing (TD) peers. Eye-tracking studies highlight these visual exploration differences, linked to difficulties in joint attention, emotion recognition, and theory of mind, as well as in executive and memory functions. Standard diagnostic tests often require active participation and sufficient language, which makes assessment challenging for children with ASD and additional cognitive or language impairments. This research project investigates how visual activity supports social cognition depending on cognitive and language levels, hypothesizing that eye-tracking can provide useful indicators for ASD screening and diagnosis.

Conditions

• Eye-tracking
• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Social Cognition
• Diagnosis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	eye-tracking	eye-tracking
OTHER	cognitive assessments	cognitive assessments

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-02-01
• Primary completion: 2027-12-01
• Completion: 2028-12-01
• First posted: 2026-01-29
• Last updated: 2026-02-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France