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Reduced accuracy and sensitivity in the perception of emotional facial expressions in individuals with high autism spectrum traits.
Autism : the international journal of research and practice - 1 Nov 2013
Poljac Ervin, Poljac Edita, Wagemans Johan
Abstract excerpt
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is among other things characterized by specific impairments in emotion processing. It is not clear, however, to what extent the typical decline in affective functioning is related to the specific autistic traits. We employed The Autism Spectrum-Quotient (AQ) to quantify autistic traits in a group of 500 healthy individuals and investigate whether we could detect similar difficulties...
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