ArticleNeuropsychologia2017
Reduced specificity in emotion judgment in people with autism spectrum disorder.
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Emotion and Interoception Processing in ALS
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 45 citations in OpenAlex.
- Eye-Tracking Studies in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Pooled it
- Increased Accuracy of Emotion Recognition in Individuals with Autism-Like Traits after Five Days of Magnetic Stimulations.Neural plasticity · 2020Trial
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- The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- Left Insula and Right Middle Temporal Gyrus Dominate Cortical Network Discriminating Arousal-dependent Emotions.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- The influence of body posture on facial expression perception in Autism.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Atypical neural encoding of faces in individuals with autism spectrum disorder.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
- A critical period for developing face recognition.Patterns (New York, N.Y.) · 2024Article
- The effects of face masks on emotional appraisal ability of students with autism spectrum disorder.International journal of developmental disabilities · 2024Article
- Multimodal investigations of emotional face processing and social trait judgment of faces.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2024Review
- A uniform human multimodal dataset for emotion perception and judgment.Scientific data · 2023Article
- Comprehensive Social Trait Judgments From Faces in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Psychological science · 2023Article
- Facial mimicry and metacognitive judgments in emotion recognition are distinctly modulated by social anxiety and autistic traits.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- A revisit of the amygdala theory of autism: Twenty years after.Neuropsychologia · 2023Review
- Reduced Pupil Oscillation During Facial Emotion Judgment in People with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Article
- A neuronal social trait space for first impressions in the human amygdala and hippocampus.Molecular psychiatry · 2022Article
- A human single-neuron dataset for face perception.Scientific data · 2022Article
- A Computational Probe into the Behavioral and Neural Markers of Atypical Facial Emotion Processing in Autism.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
- Morphing Task: The Emotion Recognition Process in Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Encoding of facial features by single neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus.Communications biology · 2021Article
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Abstract
There is a conflicting literature on facial emotion processing in autism spectrum disorder (ASD): both typical and atypical performance have been reported, and inconsistencies in the literature may stem from different processes examined (emotion judgment, face perception, fixations) as well as differences in participant populations. Here we conducted a detailed investigation of the ability to discriminate graded emotions shown in morphs of fear-happy faces, in a well-characterized high-functioning sample of participants with ASD and matched controls. Signal detection approaches were used in the analyses, and concurrent high-resolution eye-tracking was collected. Although people with ASD had typical thresholds for categorical fear and confidence judgments, their psychometric specificity to detect emotions across the entire range of intensities was reduced. However, fixation patterns onto the stimuli were typical and could not account for the reduced specificity of emotion judgment. Together, our results argue for a subtle and specific deficit in emotion perception in ASD that, from a signal detection perspective, is best understood as a reduced specificity due to increased noise in central processing of the face stimuli.
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