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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 28.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Psychiatry. 2009 Feb 20;66(4):393–397. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.01.008

Table 1.

Saccade Tasks Results

Autism
Control
% Latency
Gain
% Latency
Gain
M SD M SD M SD M SD
Predictive Saccade Task
 Right
  Sensory-guided 43.64a 228.59 60.02 .98 .09 58.57 210.03 33.64 .95 .11
  Fast 16.73 131.45 14.21 .94 .13 16.33 137.73 15.49 .91 .16
  Anticipatory 39.64a −247.68a 152.43 .78 .22 25.10 −170.97 126.83 .77 .26
 Left
  Sensory-guided 48.88 231.77 68.10 .97 .07 56.36 201.77 43.52 .91 .10
  Fast 18.57 134.24 12.59 .93 .10 18.60 140.09 8.84 .90 .16
  Anticipatory 32.54 −185.72 159.51 .82 .19 25.04 −146.05 127.56 .80 .25
Visually Guided Saccade Task
 Right
  10 218.51 47.45 .95 .07 218.73 34.38 .95 .08
  20 239.01 45.27 .92 .06 232.37 36.07 .91 .07
  30 243.48 53.61 .91 .07 245.53 40.38 .92 .06
 Left
  10 219.89 35.94 .95 .07 219.48 37.02 .99 .06
  20 235.77 40.20 .92 .06 229.35 37.42 .94 .05
  30 264.80 47.98 .91 .07 250.56 41.00 .93 .06

Percentage of each of the three saccade types (sensory-guided, fast, and anticipatory) among rightward and leftward responses, and the mean (M) and standard deviation (SD) of saccade latency and gain for saccades of each type during the predictive saccade task and for rightward and leftward saccades to each of the three target locations in the visually guided saccade task. Percentages of saccade types for the predictive saccade task are presented separately as a proportion of all scorable leftward and rightward saccades for each subject group. Saccades were classified as follows: sensory-guided (>160 msec); anticipatory (<90 msec); fast (<160 msec but >90 msec).

a

Significant group differences, p = .05.