Joint Attention and the Social Phenotype of Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Perspective From Developmental Psychopathology

OVERVIEW 116 A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER 117 DIAGNOSTIC DESCRIPTION OF ASD 118 JOINT ATTENTION IN TYPICAL DEVELOPMENT 119 Measurement of Subtypes of Joint Attention 120 Learning and the Importance of Joint Attention 121 Joint Attention and the Social-Cognitive Hypothesis 122 THE NEURAL SYSTEMS OF JOINT ATTENTION 123 Social Cognition and the PDPM of Joint Attention 128 Inside-Out Processing and the Joint Attention PDPM 130 Active Vision and the Joint Attention PDPM 130 DYNAMIC SYSTEMS AND THE JOINT ATTENTION PDPM 131 JOINT ATTENTION AND DEFINING THE SOCIAL DEFICITS OF ASD 133 The Social-Motivation Model and Joint Attention in ASD 134 Joint Attention and the Social-Cognitive Model of ASD 134 The Disassociation of IJA and RJA in ASD 134 Specific Effects on Initiating Joint Attention in ASD 136 APPLYING THE JOINT ATTENTION PDPM TO ASD 137 Neural Connectivity and Activity-Dependent Genes in ASD 137 Visual Attention Control and Joint Attention in ASD 138 Joint Attention, Learning, and Interventions for ASD 138 SUMMARY 143 FUTURE DIRECTIONS 144 REFERENCES 144