Can Gaze Avoidance Explain Why Individuals with Asperger's Syndrome Can't Recognise Emotions from Facial Expressions?

Autor/inn/en	Sawyer, Alyssa C. P.; Williamson, Paul; Young, Robyn L.
Titel	Can Gaze Avoidance Explain Why Individuals with Asperger's Syndrome Can't Recognise Emotions from Facial Expressions?
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42 (2012) 4, S.606-618 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-011-1283-0
Schlagwörter	Nonverbal Communication; Autism; Asperger Syndrome; Human Body; Eye Movements; Emotional Response; Comparative Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Autismus; Asperger-Syndrom; Menschlicher Körper; Augenbewegung; Emotionales Verhalten
Abstract	Research has shown that individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) have difficulties recognising emotions from facial expressions. Since eye contact is important for accurate emotion recognition, and individuals with ASD tend to avoid eye contact, this tendency for gaze aversion has been proposed as an explanation for the emotion recognition deficit. This explanation was investigated using a newly developed emotion and mental state recognition task. Individuals with Asperger's Syndrome were less accurate at recognising emotions and mental states, but did not show evidence of gaze avoidance compared to individuals without Asperger's Syndrome. This suggests that the way individuals with Asperger's Syndrome look at faces cannot account for the difficulty they have recognising expressions. (As Provided).
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