Introduction: ASD is a neurological and developmental disorder caused by
differences in the brain from typical development individuals. These
individuals have difficulties processing auditory and visual information. The
age of the individual and his/her IQ level affect his/her ability to process this
information. In addition, they show a reduced ability to acquire knowledge. An
immersive virtual reality exposure was applied at the same time heart rate,
EDA, and eye tracking measures were obtained ...
Introduction: ASD is a neurological and developmental disorder caused by
differences in the brain from typical development individuals. These
individuals have difficulties processing auditory and visual information. The
age of the individual and his/her IQ level affect his/her ability to process this
information. In addition, they show a reduced ability to acquire knowledge. An
immersive virtual reality exposure was applied at the same time heart rate,
EDA, and eye tracking measures were obtained to hit the mark if a typical
development individual is capable to control his/her emotions and to acquire a
specific knowledge in a realistic environment.
Methods: BITalino software is applied to obtain physiological measures of
heart rate and EDA. HTC-Vive virtual reality glasses with an eye tracker
incorporated were used to determine pupil dilation and gaze direction. A
multiple-tests of the lesson taught during the virtual reality exposure was
requested to obtained information about the acquired knowledge.
Results: Higher arousal in the activity of heart rate and EDA happened in
conditioned participants with distractors in the virtual reality exposure,
whereas control participants have a lower heart rate and EDA. Additionally,
control participants have more correct responses on the posterior multiple
tests than conditioned participants.
Conclusions: Auditory and visual distractors increase the arousal of heart
rate and EDA, related to a change in participant emotion. The knowledge
acquisition of conditioned participants was lower than from control ones.
These facts lead to a harder acquisition of information and higher emotions
from ASD individuals than from typical development.
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