ArticleChild psychiatry and human development2016
Wanting it Too Much: An Inverse Relation Between Social Motivation and Facial Emotion Recognition in Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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- Social Anhedonia Accounts for Greater Variance in Internalizing Symptoms than Autism Symptoms in Autistic and Non-Autistic Youth.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Sex differences in automatic emotion regulation in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2022Article
- Subcortical Brain Morphometry Differences between Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Schizophrenia.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- The Components of Interpersonal Synchrony in the Typical Population and in Autism: A Conceptual Analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Social functioning and emotion recognition in adults with triple X syndrome.BJPsych open · 2021Article
- Social Motivation Across Multiple Measures: Caregiver-Report of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2021Article
- Review: Posed vs. Genuine Facial Emotion Recognition and Expression in Autism and Implications for Intervention.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- Impaired Recognition of Static and Dynamic Facial Emotions in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Stimuli of Varying Intensities, Different Genders, and Age Ranges Faces.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Impaired Recognition of Negative Facial Expressions is Partly Related to Facial Perception Deficits in Adolescents with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2020Article
- The Unfulfilled Promise of the N170 as a Social Biomarker.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2020Article
- Social Cognition, Social Skill, and Social Motivation Minimally Predict Social Interaction Outcomes for Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Different associations between intelligence and social cognition in children with and without autism spectrum disorders.PloS one · 2020Article
- Recognition of Emotion Intensities Using Machine Learning Algorithms: A Comparative Study.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- Psychosocial Treatments Targeting Anxiety and Depression in Adolescents and Adults on the Autism Spectrum: Review of the Latest Research and Recommended Future Directions.Current psychiatry reports · 2018Review
- Social Skills Intervention Participation and Associated Improvements in Executive Function Performance.Autism research and treatment · 2017Article
- Neural Mechanisms of Facial Emotion Recognition in Autism: Distinct Roles for Anterior Cingulate and dlPFC.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Article
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Abstract
This study examined social motivation and early-stage face perception as frameworks for understanding impairments in facial emotion recognition (FER) in a well-characterized sample of youth with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Early-stage face perception (N170 event-related potential latency) was recorded while participants completed a standardized FER task, while social motivation was obtained via parent report. Participants with greater social motivation exhibited poorer FER, while those with shorter N170 latencies exhibited better FER for child angry faces stimuli. Social motivation partially mediated the relationship between a faster N170 and better FER. These effects were all robust to variations in IQ, age, and ASD severity. These findings augur against theories implicating social motivation as uniformly valuable for individuals with ASD, and augment models suggesting a close link between early-stage face perception, social motivation, and FER in this population. Broader implications for models and development of FER in ASD are discussed.
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