Processing of spontaneous emotional responses in adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorders: Effect of stimulus type

Autism Research

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 534-544

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorders; Eye tracking; Face perception; Multi modal processing; Retrodictive mindreading; Social cognition; Spontaneous emotion recognition; Visual auditory integration

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VIDEORECORDING; YOUNG ADULT; ASSOCIATION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; CUES; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84945446905     PISSN: 19393792     EISSN: 19393806     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aur.1468     Document Type: Article

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