Can adults with autism spectrum disorders infer what happened to someone from their emotional response?

Autism Research

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 112-123

  Cassidy, Sarah ^a   Ropar, Danielle ^a   Mitchell, Peter ^b   Chapman, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Autism; Eye tracking; Face processing; Retrodictive mindreading; Spontaneous emotion recognition

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; ATTENTION; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR; CACAO; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONEY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RECOGNITION; VIDEORECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

AUTISM; EYE TRACKING; FACE PROCESSING; RETRODICTIVE MINDREADING; SPONTANEOUS EMOTION RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGED; ASPERGER SYNDROME; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; THEORY OF MIND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84894307909     PISSN: 19393792     EISSN: 19393806     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aur.1351     Document Type: Article

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