ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2020
Autistic Traits Do Not Affect Emotional Face Processing in a General Population Sample.
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- Exploring the Broader Autism Phenotype: How Alexithymia Impacts Recognition of Facial Expressions of Pain.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Sex-specific patterns in social visual attention among individuals with autistic traits.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Evidence of a reduced role for circumscribed interests in the social attention patterns of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Article
- Temporal course of attention bias toward emotional faces in individuals with autistic traits: an eye-movement study.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
It has been suggested that atypical emotional face processing strategies observed in autism may extend in milder form to the general population. We investigated the relationship between autistic traits (AT) and gaze behaviour in a neurotypical adult sample. Novel naturalistic videos featuring happy, fearful and neutral faces were first validated in a sample of 22 participants. A separate sample of participants (N = 67) then viewed the three videos in counterbalanced order. Eye-tracking data showed that participants looked longer at emotional than neutral faces, and exploration of facial features varied with emotional condition. AT did not influence viewing patterns, time to first fixation or number of early fixations. We conclude that AT in the general population do not affect visual processing of emotional faces.
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