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Open AccessBelief that addiction is a discrete category is a stronger correlate with stigma than the belief that addiction is biologically based
Drug addiction is stigmatized, and this stigma contributes to poor outcomes for individuals with addiction. Researchers have argued that providing genetic explanations of addiction will reduce stigma, but ther...
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Open AccessDistinct Biological Motion Perception in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Meta-Analysis
If neurotypical people rely on specialized perceptual mechanisms when perceiving biological motion, then one would not expect an association between task performance and IQ. However, if those with ASD recruit ...
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Open AccessBrief Report: Attentional Cueing to Images of Social Interactions is Automatic for Neurotypical Individuals But Not Those with ASC
Human actions induce attentional orienting toward the target of the action. We examined the influence of action cueing in social (man throwing toward a human) and non-social (man throwing toward a tree) contex...
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Emotion Perception or Social Cognitive Complexity: What Drives Face Processing Deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorder?
Some, but not all, relevant studies have revealed face processing deficits among those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In particular, deficits are revealed in face processing tasks that involve emotion pe...
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Brief Report: Infants Develo** with ASD Show a Unique Developmental Pattern of Facial Feature Scanning
Infants are interested in eyes, but look preferentially at mouths toward the end of the first year, when word learning begins. Language delays are characteristic of children develo** with autism spectrum dis...
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Strategies for Perceiving Facial Expressions in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Rutherford and McIntosh (J Autism Dev Disord 37:187–196, 2007) demonstrated that individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are more tolerant than controls of exaggerated schematic facial expressions, sugges...
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The Influences of Face Inversion and Facial Expression on Sensitivity to Eye Contact in High-Functioning Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders
We examined the influences of face inversion and facial expression on sensitivity to eye contact in high-functioning adults with and without an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Participants judged the direction...
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IQ Predicts Biological Motion Perception in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Biological motion is easily perceived by neurotypical observers when encoded in point-light displays. Some but not all relevant research shows significant deficits in biological motion perception among those w...
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Visual Afterimages of Emotional Faces in High Functioning Autism
Fixating an emotional facial expression can create afterimages, such that subsequent faces are seen as having the opposite expression of that fixated. Visual afterimages have been used to map the relationships...
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Erratum to: Intention Perception in High Functioning People with Autism Spectrum Disorders Using Animacy Displays Derived from Human Actions
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Intention Perception in High Functioning People with Autism Spectrum Disorders Using Animacy Displays Derived from Human Actions
The perception of intent in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) often relies on synthetic animacy displays. This study tests intention perception in ASD via animacy stimuli derived from human motion. Using a force...
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Eye Direction, Not Movement Direction, Predicts Attention Shifts in Those with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Experiments suggesting that a change in eye gaze creates a reflexive attention shift tend to confound motion direction and terminal eye direction. However, motion and the onset of motion are known to capture a...
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Scan Path Differences and Similarities During Emotion Perception in those With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorders
Typical adults use predictable scan patterns while observing faces. Some research suggests that people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) instead attend to eyes less, and perhaps to the mouth more. The curre...
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The ‘Reading the Mind in the Voice’ Test-Revised: A Study of Complex Emotion Recognition in Adults with and Without Autism Spectrum Conditions
This study reports a revised version of the ‘Reading the Mind in the Voice’ (RMV) task. The original task (Rutherford et al., (2002), Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 32, 189–194) suffered from ceil...
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A Longitudinal Study of Pretend Play in Autism
This study describes a longitudinal design (following subjects described in Rutherford & Rogers [2003, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorder, 33, 289–302]) to test for predictors of pretend play competence...
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Emotional Responsivity in Children with Autism, Children with Other Developmental Disabilities, and Children with Typical Development
Twenty six children with autism, 24 children with developmental disabilities, and 15 typically develo** children participated in tasks in which an adult displayed emotions. Child focus of attention, change i...
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Rules versus Prototype Matching: Strategies of Perception of Emotional Facial Expressions in the Autism Spectrum
When perceiving emotional facial expressions, people with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) appear to focus on individual facial features rather than configurations. This paper tests whether individuals with A...
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The Perception of Animacy in Young Children with Autism
Visual perception may be a developmental prerequisite to some types of social understanding. The ability to perceive social information given visual motion appears to develop early. However, children with auti...
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Cognitive Underpinnings of Pretend Play in Autism
This article examines the cognitive underpinnings of spontaneous and prompted pretend play in 28 young children with autism, 24 children with other developmental disorders, and 26 typical children. The article...
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Reading the Mind in the Voice: A Study with Normal Adults and Adults with Asperger Syndrome and High Functioning Autism
People with high functioning autism (HFA) and Asperger syndrome (AS) have deficits in theory of mind (ToM). Traditional ToM tasks are not sensitive enough to measure ToM deficits in adults, so more subtle ToM ...
