Measuring the Interaction of Conflict-Minimizing and Goal-Seeking Motor Imperatives in Autism Spectrum Disorder

When subjected to sensory conflict, our bodies respond spontaneously and unconsciously to reduce or resolve it. We developed a Virtual Reality (VR) phase-matching task to establish a framework for explaining behaviors under conflict using hand-tracking, eye-tracking and pupillometry. We also describe a computational model of this behavior that was designed to help us understand differences in observed behavior from autistic individuals and …