Autistic people outperform neurotypicals in a cartoon version of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes.

ABSTRACT: Prior research suggests that while autistic people may demonstrate poorer facial emotion recognition when stimuli are human, these differences lessen when stimuli are anthropomorphic. To investigate this further, this work explores emotion recognition in autistic and neurotypical adults (n = 196). Groups were compared on a standard and a cartoon version of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test. Results indicated that autistic individuals were not significantly different from neurotypicals on the standard version. However, autistic people outperformed neurotypicals on the cartoon version. The implications for these findings regarding emotion recognition deficits and the social motivation account of autism are discussed and support the view of socio-cognitive differences rather than deficits

SUBMITTER: Cross L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9543219 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature