Understanding the Mechanisms of Facial Emotion Recognition in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Insights from Eye Tracking and Electroencephalography
Year: 2018
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Individuals with a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) experience significant difficulty in recognising the emotions others from facial expressions. This thesis sought to understand the attentional and neural mechanisms contributing to this difficulty in autistic adults through examining eye tracking and EEG-based outcomes during the recognition of complex, dynamic facial emotion. Cumulatively, eye tracking and EEG-based evidence suggest that altered brain functioning and visual attention may contribute to hyper-reactive responding to emotions.
Source: eSpace (Curtin University)
Author: Melissa H. Black
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2942571737