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ArticleAutism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research2022

Autistic people outperform neurotypicals in a cartoon version of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes.

Liam Cross, Andrea Piovesan, Gray Atherton

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Article in Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 authors.

Liam CrossDepartment of Psychology, Edge Hill University, Liverpool, UK.
Andrea PiovesanDepartment of Design and Planning in Complex Environments, Università Iuav di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
Gray AthertonDepartment of Psychology, Edge Hill University, Liverpool, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3954-9127

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prior research suggests that while autistic people may demonstrate poorer facial emotion recognition when stimuli are human, these differences lessen when stimuli are anthropomorphic. To investigate this further, this work explores emotion recognition in autistic and neurotypical adults (n = 196). Groups were compared on a standard and a cartoon version of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test. Results indicated that autistic individuals were not significantly different from neurotypicals on the standard version. However, autistic people outperformed neurotypicals on the cartoon version. The implications for these findings regarding emotion recognition deficits and the social motivation account of autism are discussed and support the view of socio-cognitive differences rather than deficits in this population. LAY SUMMARY: The Reading the Mind in the Eyes test and a cartoon version were tested on autistic and neurotypical adults. Autistic adults were not significantly different on the original test compared to neurotypicals, but they outperformed neurotypical adults on the cartoon version.

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Autism Spectrum DisorderAutistic DisorderFacial RecognitionAdultEmotionsHumansanthropomorphismautismcartoonemotion recognitionReading the Mind in the Eyes

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PMID35855595
PMCPMC9543219

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