Behavioral studies of facial emotion recognition (FER) in autism spectrum disorders (ASD)
have yielded mixed results. Here we address demographic and experiment-related factors …

The topic of typical sex and gender difference in empathy is examined in both a
developmental and neuroscientific perspective. Empathy is construed as a multi‐layered …

To date, COVID-19 has spread across the world, changing our way of life and forcing us to
wear face masks. This report demonstrates that face masks influence the human ability to …

According to a common sense theory, facial expressions signal specific emotions to people
of all ages and therefore provide children easy access to the emotions of those around them …

Background: Intact emotion processing is critical for normal emotional development. Recent
advances in neuroimaging have facilitated the examination of brain development, and have …

Some accounts imply that basic-level emotion categories are acquired early and quickly,
whereas others imply that they are acquired later and more gradually. Our study examined …

The ability to interpret emotions in facial expressions is crucial for social functioning across
the lifespan. Facial expression recognition develops rapidly during infancy and improves …

Children's ability to accurately recognize the external emotional signals produced by those
around them represents a milestone in their socioemotional development and is associated …

Background: This study examined the effects of age and two novel factors (intensity and
emotion category) on healthy children's developing emotion‐processing from 4 to 15 years …

Reading the non‐verbal cues from faces to infer the emotional states of others is central to
our daily social interactions from very early in life. Despite the relatively well‐documented …