scholarly journals Can Neurotypical Individuals Read Autistic Facial Expressions? Atypical Production of Emotional Facial Expressions in Autism Spectrum Disorders

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Brewer ◽  
Federica Biotti ◽  
Caroline Catmur ◽  
Clare Press ◽  
Francesca Happé ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Emotional Facial Expressions ◽  
Spectrum Disorders

scholarly journals Perception of dynamic facial emotional expressions in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASD)

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Kessels ◽  
Pieter Spee ◽  
Angelique Hendriks
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Intensity Level ◽  
Emotional Facial Expressions ◽  
High Functioning ◽  
Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Expression Of Emotions

AbstractPrevious studies have shown deficits in the perception of static emotional facial expressions in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), but results are inconclusive. Possibly, using dynamic facial stimuli expressing emotions at different levels of intensities may produce more robust results, since these resemble the expression of emotions in daily life to a greater extent. 30 Young adolescents with high-functioning ASD (IQ>85) and 30 age- and intelligence-matched controls (ages between 12 and 15) performed the Emotion Recognition Task, in which morphs were presented on a computer screen, depicting facial expressions of the six basic emotions (happiness, disgust, fear, anger, surprise and sadness) at nine levels of emotional intensity (20–100%). The results showed no overall group difference on the ERT, apart from a slightly worse performance on the perception of the emotions fear (p<0.03) and disgust (p<0.05). No interaction was found between intensity level of the emotions and group. High-functioning individuals with ASD perform similar to matched controls on the perception of dynamic facial emotional expressions, even at low intensities of emotional expression. These findings are in agreement with other recent studies showing that emotion perception deficits in high-functioning ASD may be less pronounced than previously thought.

scholarly journals Feedback training can increase detection of happiness in ambiguous facial expressions in children and adults with autism spectrum disorders

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Griffiths ◽  
Angela Suzanne Attwood ◽  
Ian Scott Penton-Voak ◽  
Christopher Jarrold ◽  
Marcus R Munafo
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Detection Threshold ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Expression Recognition ◽  
Emotional Facial Expressions ◽  
Low Intensity ◽  
Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Active Training

AbstractRecognition of subtle emotional facial expressions is challenging for some individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Training that targets recognition of low intensity emotional expressions may therefore be effective as an intervention to improve social-emotional skills. This paper reports the results of two randomised controlled experiments looking at the effect of a training methodology designed to increase the recognition of happy emotion in low intensity happy facial expressions. The first study implements this training with children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD, N = 14) and the second study implements this training with adults with ASD (N = 27). The training paradigm used images from a morph sequence that mixed a happy expression with a mixed-emotion ‘norm’ expression to create a sequence of varying intensity happy expressions. Participants were asked to say whether or not individual faces from the sequence were happy, to measure their happiness detection threshold. Participants that received active training were given biased feedback to shift their detection threshold, while participants that received control training were given feedback consistent with their baseline threshold. There was some statistical evidence that thresholds in the active training group shifted more than in the control group. This suggests training was successful in increasing the number of expressions that individuals identified as happy. However, there was no evidence that training increased facial expression recognition accuracy, as measured by the Reading the Mind in the Eyes task completed after training (Study 2).

scholarly journals The ability to recognize facial expressions by children with autism spectrum disorders

2012 ◽  
Vol 76 (0) ◽  
pp. 1EVC04-1EVC04
Author(s):  
Nanako KAJITA ◽  
Kozue SAWADA ◽  
Yukari HASHIMOTO ◽  
Masaharu MARUISHI ◽  
Hiroshi YOSHIDA
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorders

Embodied and disembodied processing of emotional expressions: Insights from autism spectrum disorders

2010 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 463-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Winkielman
Keyword(s):  
Pattern Recognition ◽  
Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Simple Pattern ◽  
Embodied Simulation ◽  
Multiple Routes ◽  
Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Expression Processing

AbstractProcessing of facial expressions goes beyond simple pattern recognition. To elucidate this problem, Niedenthal et al. offer a model that identifies multiple embodied and disembodied routes for expression processing, and spell out conditions triggering use of different routes. I elaborate on this model by discussing recent research on emotional recognition in individuals with autism, who can use multiple routes of emotion processing, and consequently can show atypical and typical patterns of embodied simulation and mimicry.

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