Contrary to our predictions and previous findings (Chawarska et al., 2012), attention to the stimuli did not differ between autistic children and controls on overall attention to the stimuli or distribution of attention within the social scene. This is likely due to the predominant focus on the objects in this experiment by all three groups (>60% of all tracked trial time was spent fixating the objects during the familiarization trials). The speaker in this experiment both picked up and manipulated the objects during each trial. This was done to simplify the task for autistic children to a situation in which their capacity to identify a target referent has been established (Parish-Morris et al., 2007). It also drew a great deal of attention to the objects. While Chawarska et al. (2012) did find differences between groups when there was a dyadic bid for interaction (that is, when the speaker in the video spoke to the child directly) there were not significant differences between the groups for the condition in which a toy on screen was moving. This is consistent with the current findings in which the objects were being held and manipulated for much of the familiarization trials.