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| Title |
Can Neurotypical Individuals Read Autistic Facial Expressions? Atypical Production of Emotional Facial Expressions in Autism Spectrum Disorders
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| Published in |
Autism Research, June 2015
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| DOI | 10.1002/aur.1508 |
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| Abstract |
The difficulties encountered by individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) when interacting with neurotypical (NT, i.e. nonautistic) individuals are usually attributed to failure to recognize the emotions and mental states of their NT interaction partner. It is also possible, however, that at least some of the difficulty is due to a failure of NT individuals to read the mental and emotional states of ASD interaction partners. Previous research has frequently observed deficits of typical facial emotion recognition in individuals with ASD, suggesting atypical representations of emotional expressions. Relatively little research, however, has investigated the ability of individuals with ASD to produce recognizable emotional expressions, and thus, whether NT individuals can recognize autistic emotional expressions. The few studies which have investigated this have used only NT observers, making it impossible to determine whether atypical representations are shared among individuals with ASD, or idiosyncratic. This study investigated NT and ASD participants' ability to recognize emotional expressions produced by NT and ASD posers. Three posing conditions were included, to determine whether potential group differences are due to atypical cognitive representations of emotion, impaired understanding of the communicative value of expressions, or poor proprioceptive feedback. Results indicated that ASD expressions were recognized less well than NT expressions, and that this is likely due to a genuine deficit in the representation of typical emotional expressions in this population. Further, ASD expressions were equally poorly recognized by NT individuals and those with ASD, implicating idiosyncratic, rather than common, atypical representations of emotional expressions in ASD. Autism Res 2015. © 2015 The Authors Autism Research published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of International Society for Autism Research. |
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X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 26 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 8 | 31% |
| United Kingdom | 7 | 27% |
| Australia | 1 | 4% |
| France | 1 | 4% |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 4% |
| Japan | 1 | 4% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 6 | 23% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 26 | 100% |
Mendeley demographics
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 284 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 280 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 52 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 37 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 30 | 11% |
| Researcher | 25 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 15 | 5% |
| Other | 38 | 13% |
| Unknown | 87 | 31% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 99 | 35% |
| Neuroscience | 20 | 7% |
| Social Sciences | 12 | 4% |
| Computer Science | 11 | 4% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 8 | 3% |
| Other | 32 | 11% |
| Unknown | 102 | 36% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 86. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 August 2026.
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#631,488
of 34,397,553 outputs
Outputs from Autism Research
#95
of 2,158 outputs
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#5,695
of 307,057 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Autism Research
#2
of 34 outputs
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