SynthesisJournal of autism and developmental disorders2019
The "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" Test in Autism-Spectrum Disorders Comparison with Healthy Controls: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
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47 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Examining whether adults with autism spectrum disorder encounter multiple problems in theory of mind: a study based on meta-analysis.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2023Pooled it
- Affective cognition in eating disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the performance on the "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" Test.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Pooled it
- Measuring change in facial emotion recognition in individuals with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2020Pooled it
- Temporal Changes in Effect Sizes of Studies Comparing Individuals With and Without Autism: A Meta-analysis.JAMA psychiatry · 2019Pooled it
- A Randomized Trial Utilizing EEG Brain Computer Interface to Improve Facial Emotion Recognition in Autistic Adults.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Trial
- Intact but Protracted Facial and Prosodic Emotion Recognition Among Autistic Adults.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Atypical Resting-State EEG Graph Metrics of Network Efficiency Across Development in Autism and Their Association with Social Cognition: Results from the LEAP Study.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Human brain network for reading the mind from the eyes: beyond activated and deactivated regions.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2026Article
- Autism and detecting verbal truth and lies: veracity decisions, cue selection, judgment confidence, and self-report reasoning.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Effects of face coverings on people and interactions in mental health settings: scoping review.BJPsych open · 2025Review
- Autistic eye contact? A hermeneutic phenomenological multicenter study of the similarities and differences in eye-contact experiences between adults with and without autism.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2025Article
- Executive Function and Social Cognition Performance Predicts Social Difficulty for Autistic Adults.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Article
- Reading the mind in infant eyes test: A measure of the recognition of infant emotion.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Behavioral synchronization of two individuals during cooperative interaction: the role of the mentalization ability as measured by the reading the mind in the eyes test.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Eye tracking based clustering using the Korean version of the reading the mind in the eyes test.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Variations in the Appearance and Interpretation of Interpersonal Eye Contact in Social Categorizations and Psychiatric Populations Worldwide: A Scoping Review with a Critical Appraisal of the Literature.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- "I Do Not Know How You Feel and How I Feel About That": Mentalizing Impairments in Machado-Joseph Disease.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2024Article
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on stress and coping in parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.PloS one · 2024Article
- Processing of prosodic cues of uncertainty in autistic and non-autistic adults: a study based on articulatory speech synthesis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Reading the mind in the eyes and cognitive ability in schizophrenia- and autism spectrum disorders.Psychological medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
We conducted a meta-analysis of 18 studies to establish whether a relation exists between Reading the Mind in the Eye Test (RMET) performance and intelligence quotient (IQ) in individuals diagnosed with autism-spectrum disorders (ASD) and controls, taking into account relevant characteristics such as age, gender, and autism quotient. Our findings indicate that RMET performance was better in controls compared with those diagnosed with ASD. We found that RMET performance is dependent on full and verbal IQ and age in controls. However, RMET performance is negatively correlated with performance IQ in individuals diagnosed with ASD. These results suggest that the methodology applied by ASD when taking the RMET is different from control individuals and might depend less on verbal abilities.
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