Facial expression recognition as a candidate marker for autism spectrum disorder: how frequent and severe are deficits?

Abstract Background Impairments in social communication are a core feature of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Because the ability to infer other people’s emotions from their facial expressions is critical for many aspects of social communication, deficits in expression recognition are a plausible ca...

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Main Authors: E. Loth, L. Garrido, J. Ahmad, E. Watson, A. Duff, B. Duchaine
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-01-01
Series:Molecular Autism
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13229-018-0187-7