SynthesisJournal of autism and developmental disorders2013
Recognition of emotions in autism: a formal meta-analysis.
Synthesis in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05781412 (Modulation of the Activity in the Cerebellum With Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Autistic Participants), which is not on this map. Cited by 316 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Modulation of the Activity in the Cerebellum With Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Autistic Participants
Who cites it
316 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Emotional Prosody Recognition in Autism Spectrum Disorder Without Intellectual Disability: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Pooled it
- Alexithymia in neurodevelopmental populations: a scoping review of Down syndrome, autism spectrum disorder, and dual diagnosis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- First Impressions Towards Autistic People: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Pooled it
- Emotion recognition deficits in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: a comprehensive meta-analysis of accuracy and response time.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Gaze and social functioning associations in autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2022Pooled it
- The neuroscience of social feelings: mechanisms of adaptive social functioning.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2021Pooled it
- A quantitative meta-analysis of face recognition deficits in autism: 40 years of research.Psychological bulletin · 2021Pooled it
- New Technologies as Promising Tools for Assessing Facial Emotion Expressions Impairments in ASD: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- A Randomized Trial Utilizing EEG Brain Computer Interface to Improve Facial Emotion Recognition in Autistic Adults.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Trial
- Impact of chronic intranasal oxytocin administration on face expression processing in autistic children: a randomized controlled trial using fMRI.Molecular autism · 2024Trial
- Training reduces error in rating the intensity of emotions.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2022Trial
- Development and Feasibility of MindChip™: A Social Emotional Telehealth Intervention for Autistic Adults.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2021Trial
- Oxytocin biases eye-gaze to dynamic and static social images and the eyes of fearful faces: associations with trait autism.Translational psychiatry · 2020Trial
- No added cost: Emotion recognition in co-occurring ADHD and ASD.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2026Article
- Intact but Protracted Facial and Prosodic Emotion Recognition Among Autistic Adults.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Digital, Media, and Information Literacies and the Well-Being of Neurotypical and Neurodivergent Children: A Synthetic Knowledge Synthesis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Neural Tracking of Social Navigation in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Biological psychiatry · 2026Article
- Body dysmorphic symptoms in autism and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: A comorbidity study.The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry · 2026Article
- The Empathy Quotient and Systemising Quotient for Toddlers: Development and Validation.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Processing of emotional faces has unique functional and cytoarchitectural associations in those with an autism spectrum diagnosis.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2026Article
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Abstract
Determining the integrity of emotion recognition in autistic spectrum disorder is important to our theoretical understanding of autism and to teaching social skills. Previous studies have reported both positive and negative results. Here, we take a formal meta-analytic approach, bringing together data from 48 papers testing over 980 participants with autism. Results show there is an emotion recognition difficulty in autism, with a mean effect size of 0.80 which reduces to 0.41 when a correction for publication bias is applied. Recognition of happiness was only marginally impaired in autism, but recognition of fear was marginally worse than recognition of happiness. This meta-analysis provides an opportunity to survey the state of emotion recognition research in autism and to outline potential future directions.
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