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Abstract
Autistic people often show difficulty with facial expression recognition. However, the degree of difficulty varies widely, which might reflect varying symptom profiles. We examined three domains of autistic traits in the typical population and found that more autistic-like social skills were associated with greater difficulty labelling expressions, and more autistic-like communication was associated with greater difficulty labelling and perceptually discriminating between expressions. There were no associations with autistic-like attention to detail. We also found that labelling, but not perceptual, difficulty was mediated by alexithymia. We found no evidence that labelling or perceptual difficulty was mediated by weakened adaptive coding. Results suggest expression recognition varies between the sub-clinical expressions of autistic symptom domains and reflects both co-occurring alexithymia and perceptual difficulty.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 4559-4571 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders |
Volume | 49 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Nov 2019 |
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ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders
Crain, S. (Investigator 01), Rhodes, G. (Investigator 02), Hodges, J. (Investigator 03), Coltheart, M. (Investigator 04), Castles, A. (Investigator 05), Barnier, A. (Investigator 06), Brock, J. (Investigator 07), Byrne, B. (Investigator 08) & Palermo, R. (Investigator 09)
ARC Australian Research Council
1/01/11 → 31/12/18
Project: Research
Research output
- 18 Citations
- 1 Doctoral Thesis
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Factors underlying individual differences in facial expression recognition ability in the broader autism phenotype
Bothe, E., 2022, (Unpublished)Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis
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