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Keating, Connor T.; Fraser, Dagmar S.; Sowden, Sophie; Cook, Jennifer L. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
To date, studies have not established whether autistic and non-autistic individuals differ in emotion recognition from facial motion cues when matched in terms of alexithymia. Here, autistic and non-autistic adults (N = 60) matched on age, gender, non-verbal reasoning ability and alexithymia, completed an emotion recognition task, which employed…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Emotional Response, Nonverbal Communication
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Di Lorenzo, Renata; Munsters, Nicolette M.; Ward, Emma K.; de Jonge, Maretha; Kemner, Chantal; van den Boomen, Carlijn – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show atypical processing of facial expressions. Research with autistic toddlers suggests that abnormalities in processing of spatial frequencies (SFs) contribute to such differences. The current event-related-potential (ERP) study investigated differences between 10-month-old infants with high- and…
Descriptors: Fear, Emotional Response, Brain, Cognitive Processes
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Herba, Catherine M.; de Bruin, Esther; Althaus, Monika; Verheij, Fop; Ferdinand, Robert F. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2008
Previous studies indicate that Multiple Complex Developmental Disorder (MCDD) children differ from PDD-NOS and autistic children on a symptom level and on psychophysiological functioning. Children with MCDD (n = 21) and PDD-NOS (n = 62) were compared on two facets of social-cognitive functioning: identification of neutral faces and facial…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Autism, Recognition (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Rose, Fredric E.; Lincoln, Alan J.; Lai, Zona; Ene, Michaela; Searcy, Yvonne M.; Bellugi, Ursula – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2007
We sought to clarify the nature of the face processing strength commonly observed in individuals with Williams syndrome (WS) by comparing the face recognition ability of persons with WS to that of persons with autism and to healthy controls under three conditions: Upright faces with neutral expressions, upright faces with varying affective…
Descriptors: Recognition (Psychology), Autism, Visual Perception, Affective Behavior