Face perception and learning in autism spectrum disorders

SJ Webb, E Neuhaus, S Faja - Quarterly journal of …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is characterized by impairment in social communication
and restricted and repetitive interests. While not included in the diagnostic characterization …

Atypical visual saliency in autism spectrum disorder quantified through model-based eye tracking

S Wang, M Jiang, XM Duchesne, EA Laugeson… - Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
The social difficulties that are a hallmark of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are thought to
arise, at least in part, from atypical attention toward stimuli and their features. To investigate …

Facing the challenge of teaching emotions to individuals with low-and high-functioning autism using a new serious game: a pilot study

S Serret, S Hun, G Iakimova, J Lozada, M Anastassova… - Molecular autism, 2014 - Springer
Background It is widely accepted that emotion processing difficulties are involved in Autism
Spectrum Conditions (ASC). An increasing number of studies have focused on the …

Systematic review of cognitive biases in autism spectrum disorders: A neuropsychological framework towards an understanding of the high prevalence of co-occurring …

MA Bergman, AH Schene, CTWM Vissers… - Research in Autism …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Cognitive theories of major depressive disorder (MDD) assume that cognitive
biases engender and maintain depressive symptoms. Given the higher prevalence of MDD …

[HTML][HTML] Fronto-temporal brain activity and connectivity track implicit attention to positive and negative social words in a novel socio-emotional Stroop task

M Arioli, G Basso, P Poggi, N Canessa - Neuroimage, 2021 - Elsevier
Previous inconsistencies on the effects of implicitly processing positively-vs. negatively-
connotated emotional words might reflect the influence of uncontrolled psycholinguistic …

Deep neural network reveals the world of autism from a first‐person perspective

M Ruan, PJ Webster, X Li, S Wang - Autism Research, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show atypical attention to social stimuli and
aberrant gaze when viewing images of the physical world. However, it is unknown how they …

Seeing the funny side of things: Humour processing in Autism Spectrum Disorders

C Silva, D Da Fonseca, F Esteves, C Deruelle - Research in Autism …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Humour is fundamentally a social phenomenon, occurring frequently in social
and playful contexts. The positive affect resulting from an experience of enjoyed humour …

Use of oculomotor behavior to classify children with autism and typical development: A novel implementation of the machine learning approach

Z Zhao, J Wei, J Xing, X Zhang, X Qu, X Hu… - Journal of Autism and …, 2023 - Springer
This study segmented the time series of gaze behavior from nineteen children with autism
spectrum disorder (ASD) and 20 children with typical development in a face-to-face …

Attentional biases towards emotional scenes in autism spectrum condition: an eye-tracking study

R Sahuquillo-Leal, P Navalón… - Research in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Different attentional processing of emotional information may underlie social
impairments in Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC). It has been hypothesized that individuals …

Are autistic traits associated with a social-emotional memory bias?

V Wardell, CI Stewardson, MC Hunsche… - … Research and Therapy, 2024 - Elsevier
Autistic traits are associated with differential processing of emotional and social cues. By
contrast little is known about the relationship of autistic traits to socio-emotional memory …