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Hadjikhani, Nouchine; Hoge, Rick; Snyder, Josh; de Gelder, Beatrice – Brain and Cognition, 2008
Facial expression and direction of gaze are two important sources of social information, and what message each conveys may ultimately depend on how the respective information interacts in the eye of the perceiver. Direct gaze signals an interaction with the observer but averted gaze amounts to "pointing with the eyes", and in combination with a…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Brain, Fear, Eye Movements
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Krysko, Krysko M.; Rutherford, M. D. – Brain and Cognition, 2009
Identifying threatening expressions is a significant social perceptual skill. Individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are impaired in social interaction, show deficits in face and emotion processing, show amygdala abnormalities and display a disadvantage in the perception of social threat. According to the anger superiority hypothesis,…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Autism, Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction