SynthesisAutism : the international journal of research and practice2020
Measuring change in facial emotion recognition in individuals with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review.
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- Facial Emotion Recognition Trainings for Children and Adolescents: A Transdiagnostic Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Clinical psychology & psychotherapyPooled it
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- Visualization analysis for emotional characteristics of autism spectrum disorder from cinemetrics perspective.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- The Emotion Authenticity Recognition (EAR) test: normative data of an innovative test using dynamic emotional stimuli to evaluate the ability to recognize the authenticity of emotions expressed by faces.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025Article
- Unveiling heterogeneous gaze patterns in autistic children undergoing rTMS: insights from latent profile analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Autistic and non-autistic individuals show the same amygdala activity during emotional face processing.Molecular autism · 2024Article
- Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Social Attention Patterns and Emotion Recognition Ability in Male Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Towards Context-Aware Facial Emotion Reaction Database for Dyadic Interaction Settings.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- How White American Children Develop Racial Biases in Emotion Reasoning.Affective science · 2022Article
- Masking Emotions: Face Masks Impair How We Read Emotions.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Attention Modification to Attenuate Facial Emotion Recognition Deficits in Children with Autism: A Pilot Study.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2020Article
- Reasoning More Efficiently with Primary Knowledge Despite Extraneous Cognitive Load.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
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lay abstractChildren and adults with autism spectrum disorder show difficulty recognizing facial emotions in others, which makes social interaction challenging. While there are many treatments developed to improve facial emotion recognition, there is no agreement on the best way to measure such abilities in individuals with autism spectrum disorder. The purpose of this review is to examine studies that were published between January 1998 and November 2019 and have measured change in facial emotion recognition to evaluate the effectiveness of different treatments. Our search yielded 65 studies, and within these studies, 36 different measures were used to evaluate facial emotion recognition in individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Only six of these measures, however, were used in different studies and by different investigators. In this review, we summarize the different measures and outcomes of the studies, in order to identify promising assessment tools and inform future research.
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