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Golan, Ofer; Baron-Cohen, Simon; Hill, Jacqueline – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2006
Adults with Asperger Syndrome (AS) can recognise simple emotions and pass basic theory of mind tasks, but have difficulties recognising more complex emotions and mental states. This study describes a new battery of tasks, testing recognition of 20 complex emotions and mental states from faces and voices. The battery was given to males and females…
Descriptors: Asperger Syndrome, Adults, Recognition (Psychology), Psychological Patterns
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Mottron, Laurent; Dawson, Michelle; Soulieres, Isabelle; Hubert, Benedicte; Burack, Jake – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2006
We propose an "Enhanced Perceptual Functioning" model encompassing the main differences between autistic and non-autistic social and non-social perceptual processing: locally oriented visual and auditory perception, enhanced low-level discrimination, use of a more posterior network in "complex" visual tasks, enhanced perception…
Descriptors: Autism, Visual Perception, Models, Auditory Perception