Inferential Emotion Tracking reveals impaired context-based emotion processing in individuals with high Autism Quotient scores.

ABSTRACT: Emotion perception is essential for successful social interactions and maintaining long-term relationships with friends and family. Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience social communication deficits and have reported difficulties in facial expression recognition. However, emotion recognition depends on more than just processing face expression; context is critically important to correctly infer the emotions of others. Whether context-based emotion processing is impacted in those with Autism remains unclear. Here, we used a recently developed context-based emotion perception task, called Inferential Emotion Tracking (IET), and investigated whether individuals who scored high on the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) had deficits in context-based emotion perception. Using 34

SUBMITTER: Ortega J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10198990 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature