Brief research report: autistic traits modulate the rapid detection of punishment-associated neutral faces.

ABSTRACT: Speedy detection of faces with emotional value plays a fundamental role in social interactions. A few previous studies using a visual search paradigm have reported that individuals with high autistic traits (ATs), who are characterized by deficits in social interactions, demonstrated decreased detection performance for emotional facial expressions. However, whether ATs modulate the rapid detection of faces with emotional value remains inconclusive because emotional facial expressions involve salient visual features (i.e., a U-shaped mouth in a happy expression) that can facilitate visual attention. In order to disentangle the effects of visual factors from the rapid detection of emotional faces, we examined the rapid detection of neutral faces associated with emotional value among young ad

SUBMITTER: Saito A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10702596 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature