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Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

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01-02-2012 | Original Paper

Visual Afterimages of Emotional Faces in High Functioning Autism

Auteurs: M. D. Rutherford, Erin K. Troubridge, Jennifer Walsh

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 2/2012

Abstract

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 among emotion categories, and this method was used here to compare ASD and matched control participants. Participants adapted to a facial expression for 45 s then saw a neutral face for 800 ms and chose a label to describe the latter. The ASD group showed evidence of afterimages, but atypical patterns of opposition: whereas fixating negative emotions uniformly evokes a positive afterimage in the control group, fixating negative emotions was more likely to evoke a negative afterimage in the ASD group. This study was the first to provide evidence of visual aftereffects in ASD and suggests a different psychological organization among emotions in those with ASD.

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Titel: Visual Afterimages of Emotional Faces in High Functioning Autism
Auteurs: M. D. Rutherford
Erin K. Troubridge
Jennifer Walsh
Publicatiedatum: 01-02-2012
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 2/2012
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-011-1233-x

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