Can Neurotypical Individuals Read Autistic Facial Expressions? Atypical Production of Emotional Facial Expressions in XXXX Spectrum Disorders.

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UNASSIGNED: The difficulties encountered by individuals with @entity72 ( @entity72 ) when interacting with neurotypical (NT, i.e. nonautistic) individuals are usually attributed to failure to recognize the emotions and mental states of their NT interaction partner. It is also possible, however, that at least some of the difficulty is due to a failure of NT individuals to read the mental and emotional states of @entity72 interaction partners. Previous research has frequently observed deficits of typical @entity10400 in individuals with @entity72 , suggesting atypical representations of emotional expressions. Relatively little research, however, has investigated the ability of individuals with @entity72 to produce recognizable emotional expressions, and thus, whether NT individuals can recognize autistic emotional expressions. The few studies which have investigated this have used only NT observers, making it impossible to determine whether atypical representations are shared among individuals with @entity72 , or idiosyncratic. This study investigated NT and @entity72 @entity1 ' ability to recognize emotional expressions produced by NT and @entity72 posers. Three posing conditions were included, to determine whether potential group differences are due to atypical @entity73 , impaired understanding of the communicative value of expressions, or poor proprioceptive feedback. Results indicated that @entity72 expressions were recognized less well than NT expressions, and that this is likely due to a genuine deficit in the representation of typical emotional expressions in this population. Further, @entity72 expressions were equally poorly recognized by NT individuals and those with @entity72 , implicating idiosyncratic, rather than common, atypical representations of emotional expressions in @entity72 . @entity2438 Res 2015.    2015 The Authors @entity2438 Research published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of International Society for @entity2438 Research.
