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    Complex facial emotion recognition and atypical gaze patterns in autistic adults

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    Authors
    Black, Melissa
    Chen, Nigel T.M.
    Lipp, Ottmar
    Bolte, Sven
    Girdler, Sonya
    Date
    2020
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Black, M.H. and Chen, N.T.M. and Lipp, O.V. and Bölte, S. and Girdler, S. 2020. Complex facial emotion recognition and atypical gaze patterns in autistic adults. Autism. 24 (1): pp. 258-262.
    Source Title
    Autism
    DOI
    10.1177/1362361319856969
    ISSN
    1362-3613
    Faculty
    Faculty of Health Sciences
    School
    School of Psychology
    School of Occupational Therapy, Social Work and Speech Pathology
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    Black, M.H. and Chen, N.T.M. and Lipp, O.V. and Bölte, S. and Girdler, S. 2020. Complex facial emotion recognition and atypical gaze patterns in autistic adults. Autism. 24 (1): pp. 258-262. Copyright © 2019 The Authors. DOI: 10.1177/1362361319856969.

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79225
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    • Curtin Research Publications
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    While altered gaze behaviour during facial emotion recognition has been observed in autistic individuals, there remains marked inconsistency in findings, with the majority of previous research focused towards the processing of basic emotional expressions. There is a need to examine whether atypical gaze during facial emotion recognition extends to more complex emotional expressions, which are experienced as part of everyday social functioning. The eye gaze of 20 autistic and 20 IQ-matched neurotypical adults was examined during a facial emotion recognition task of complex, dynamic emotion displays. Autistic adults fixated longer on the mouth region when viewing complex emotions compared to neurotypical adults, indicating that altered prioritization of visual information may contribute to facial emotion recognition impairment. Results confirm the need for more ecologically valid stimuli for the elucidation of the mechanisms underlying facial emotion recognition difficulty in autistic individuals.

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