From Martin Reynolds, Nantwich, Cheshire, UK
As a scientifically trained adult with autism, I was interested in your report of Michel Valstar's work on an algorithm that could help spot autism-like conditions from facial expressions (7 January, p 11). Many autistic individuals find our eyes drawn to the mouth rather than the eyes of others we're conversing with. Could this be used by the researchers?
Michel Valstar writes:
• This thought resonates with our work with Alexander Foss, an ophthalmologist interested in the development of autism-like conditions. Gaze analysis is one cue we will include in future work.
