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Castelli, Fulvia – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2005
The study investigated the recognition of standardized facial expressions of emotion (anger, fear, disgust, happiness, sadness, surprise) at a perceptual level (experiment 1) and at a semantic level (experiments 2 and 3) in children with autism (N= 20) and normally developing children (N= 20). Results revealed that children with autism were as…
Descriptors: Fear, Autism, Child Development, Emotional Response
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Poljac, Ervin; Poljac, Edita; Wagemans, Johan – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2013
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is among other things characterized by specific impairments in emotion processing. It is not clear, however, to what extent the typical decline in affective functioning is related to the specific autistic traits. We employed "The Autism Spectrum-Quotient" (AQ) to quantify autistic traits in a group of 500…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Nonverbal Communication, Psychological Patterns
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Wright, Barry; Clarke, Natalie; Jordan, Jo; Young, Andrew W.; Clarke, Paula; Miles, Jeremy; Nation, Kate; Clarke, Leesa; Williams, Christine – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2008
We compared young people with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) with age, sex and IQ matched controls on emotion recognition of faces and pictorial context. Each participant completed two tests of emotion recognition. The first used Ekman series faces. The second used facial expressions in visual context. A control task involved…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Autism, Asperger Syndrome, Intelligence Quotient