The ability to understand and regulate emotions in ourselves and others is essential for the
healthy development of all human beings. It helps people comprehend themselves and …

Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are developmental disorders which are thought primarily
to affect social functioning. However, there is now a growing body of evidence that unusual …

The claim that autistic people lack a theory of mind—that they fail to understand that other
people have a mind or that they themselves have a mind—pervades psychology. This article …

It is widely accepted that autism is associated with disordered emotion processing and, in
particular, with deficits of emotional reciprocity such as impaired emotion recognition and …

Under noisy listening conditions, visualizing a speaker's articulations substantially improves
speech intelligibility. This multisensory speech integration ability is crucial to effective …

Sensory difficulties are a commonly occurring feature of autism spectrum disorders and are
now included as one manifestation of the 'restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests …

Why bodies? It is rather puzzling that given the massive interest in affective neuroscience in
the last decade, it still seems to make sense to raise the question 'Why bodies' and to try to …

Visual processing of biological motion (BM) produced by living organisms is of immense
value for successful daily-life activities and, in particular, for adaptive social behavior and …

Individuals with autism spectrum conditions have difficulties in understanding and
responding appropriately to others. Additionally, they demonstrate impaired perception of …

Background Children with autism spectrum conditions (ASC) have emotion recognition
deficits when tested in different expression modalities (face, voice, body). However, these …