Recognition of facially expressed emotions and visual search strategies in adults with Asperger syndrome

Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 210-217

  Falkmer, Marita ^a,b   Bjällmark, Anna ^c   Larsson, Matilda ^c   Falkmer, Torbjörn ^d,e,f  

^a JÖNKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Department of Education Municipal Council ^*  (Sweden)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Basic emotions; Eye movements; Fixation durations; Fixation patterns; Social development

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE TRACKING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 77957345122     PISSN: 17509467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rasd.2010.03.013     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. American Psychological Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 4th ed. 1994 American Psychiatric Publishing Inc. Washington, D.C.
2. E. Back, D. Ropar, and P. Mitchell Do the eyes have it? Inferring mental states from animated faces in autism Child Development 78 2 2007 397 411
3. S. Baron-Cohen, A. Riviere, P. Cross, M. Fukushima, C. Bryant, and M. Sotillo Reading the mind in the face: A cross-cultural and developmental study Visual Cognition 3 1996 39 59
4. S. Baron-Cohen, F.J. Scott, C. Allison, J. Williams, P. Bolton, and F.E. Mathews Prevalence of autism-spectrum conditions: UK school-based population study The British Journal of Psychiatry 194 2009 500 509
5. S. Baron-Cohen, S. Wheelwright, and T. Jolliffe Is there a "language of the eyes"? Evidence from normal adults and adults with autism or Asperger syndrome Visual Cognition 4 3 1997 311 331
6. S. Begeer, C. Rieffe, M.M. Terwogt, and L. Stockmann Attention to facial emotion expressions in children with autism Autism 10 1 2006 37 51
7. M. Behrmann, C. Thomas, and K. Humphreys Seeing it differently: Visual processing in autism Trends in Cognitive Science 10 6 2006 258 264
8. J. Boucher, and V. Lewis Unfamiliar face recognition in relatively able autistic children Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 28 1 1992 137 151
9. B. Corden, R. Chilvers, and D. Skuse Avoidance of emotionally arousing stimuli predicts social-perceptual impairment in Asperger's syndrome Neuropsychologia 46 2008 137 147
10. T. Falkmer, J. Dahlman, T. Dukic, A. Bjällmark, and M. Larsson Fixation identification in centroid versus start-point modes using eye tracking data Perceptual and Motor Skills 106 2008 710 724
11. M. Falkmer, M. Larsson, A. Bjällmark, and T. Falkmer The importance of the eye area in face identification abilities and visual search strategies in persons with Asperger syndrome Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders 2010 10.1016/j.rasd.2010.01.011
12. U. Frith Autism: Explaining the enigma 1994 Basil Blackwell Ltd. Oxford
13. D. García-Villamisar, J. Rojahn, R.H. Zaja, and M. Jodra Facial emotion processing and social adaptation in adults with and without autism spectrum disorder Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders 2010 10.1016/j.rasd.2010.01.016
14. O. Golan, S. Baron-Cohen, and Y. Golan The 'reading the mind in films' task (child version): Complex emotion and mental state recognition in children with and without autism spectrum conditions Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 38 2008 1534 1541
15. A.L. Gross, and B. Ballif Children's understanding of emotion from facial expressions and situations: A review Developmental Review 11 4 1991 368 398
16. C.E. Izzard Innate and universal facial expressions: Evidence from developmental and cross-cultural research Psychological Bulletin 115 1994 288 299
17. B. Jemel, L. Mottron, and M. Dawson Impaired face processing in autism: Fact or artifact? Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 36 1 2006 91 106
18. A. Klin, W. Jones, R. Schultz, F. Volkmar, and D. Cohen Visual fixation patterns during viewing of naturalistic social situations as predictors of social competence in individuals with autism Archive of Genetic Psychiatry 59 1989 809 816
19. P.G. Lacava, O. Golan, S. Baron-Cohen, and B.S. Myles Using assistive technology to teach emotion recognition to students with Asperger Syndrome Remedial and Special Education 28 3 2007 174 181
20. B. López, N. Donnelly, J.A. Hadwin, and S.R. Leekam Face processing in high-functioning adolescents with autism: Evidence for weak central coherence Visual Cognition 11 6 2004 673 688
21. D. Maurer, R. Le Grand, and C.J. Mondloch The many faces of configural processing Trends in Cognitive Science 6 6 2002 255 260
22. U. Neisser Cognitive psychology 1967 Prentice-Hall New York
23. N.J. Rinehart, J.L. Bradshaw, S.A. Moss, A.V. Brereton, and B.J. Tonge Atypical interference of local detail on global processing in high-functioning autism and Asperger's disorder Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 41 6 2000 769 778
24. M.D. Rutherford, K.A. Clements, and A.B. Sekuler Differences in discrimination of eye and mouth displacement in autism spectrum disorders Vision Research 47 2007 2099 2110
25. M.D. Rutherford, and A.M. Towns Scan path differences and similarities during emotion perception in those with and without autism spectrum disorders Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 38 2008 1371 1381
26. SMI Free head movements - iView X HED 2006 Retrieved 24.10.06 http://www.smi.de/iv/index.html
27. L. Speer, A.E. Cook, W.M. McMahon, and E. Clark Face processing in children with autism Autism 11 3 2007 265 277
28. M.L. Spezio, R. Adolphs, S.E. Hurley, and J. Piven Abnormal use of facial information in high-functioning autism Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 37 2007 929 939
29. M.L. Spezio, R. Adolphs, S.E. Hurley, and J. Piven Analysis of face gaze in autism using "Bubbles" Neuropsychologia 45 2007 144 151
30. C. Trepagnier, M.M. Sebrechts, and R. Peterson Atypical face gaze in autism Cyberpsychology & Behaviour 5 3 2002 213 217
31. L. Wing, and J. Gould Severe impairments of social interaction and associated abnormalities in children: Epidemiology and classification Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 9 1979 11 29
32. B. Wright, C. Clarke, J. Jordan, A.W. Young, P. Clark, and J. Mile Emotion recognition in faces and the use of visual contextin young people with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders Autism 12 6 2008 607 626
33. A. Yarbus Eye movements and vision 1967 Plenum Press New York