Very few studies have focused on the stimulus materials for social situations to understand if contextual cues have impacts on the gaze pattern of children with ASD to investigate the emotion recognition performance. This study investigated the performance across 2 age groups (preschool, school age) between ASD and typically developing (TD) children by using eye-tracking techniques and recording recognition accuracy for different area of interests (AOI). The performance of ASD (n=91) and TD (n=155) participants were observed while asked to identify emotions in a context, including happy, sad, anger, fear, and surprise. The results showed no significant relationship between age and correct rate; but ASD groups actually spent more time on faces to recognize emotions compared to TD groups. The findings highlighted the greater effects of social experience on TD groups, leading to correctly identify emotions despite less gazing time at faces.

Emotion Recognition and Gaze Pattern of Preschool Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders Children

This study aims to investigate whether autistic individuals (e.g., ASD) have consistent or inconsistent age-related changes for recognizing different facial emotions compared to typical ones. Particularly, do facial recognition abilities for different emotions display various developmental trends in both groups? Pictures of six primary facial types (happy, sad, angry, surprised, and confused faces) of real persons were used for 91 ASD patients and 177 normal participants from kindergartens, elementary schools, and colleges to examine the performance of facial emotion. The results showed that, although, in general, normal participants had greater recognition performance as expected, both groups of participants had three distinct categories of development patterns: (1) angry and fear, (2) happy and surprised, and the last, (3) sad and confused. These findings revealed significant theoretical and practical values for further research and treatment.

The Effects of Age on Facial Recognition of Autisms

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The 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society presents the latest research across cognitive science and highlights the theme of Cognition in Context.

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Emotion Recognition and Gaze Pattern of Preschool Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders Children

The Effects of Age on Facial Recognition of Autisms

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