Mechanisms of facial emotion recognition in autism spectrum disorders: Insights from eye tracking and electroencephalography

[1]  C. Darwin.  The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals , .

[2]  S Daly,et al.  Behavioral correlates of social anxiety. , 1978, The British journal of social and clinical psychology.

[3]  Daphne Maurer,et al.  The perception of facial expressions by the three-month-old. , 1981, Child development.

[4]  S. Baron-Cohen,et al.  Does the autistic child have a “theory of mind” ? , 1985, Cognition.

[5]  P. Johnson-Laird,et al.  The language of emotions: An analysis of a semantic field , 2013 .

[6]  P. Ekman.  An argument for basic emotions , 1992 .

[7]  G. Mangun.  Neural mechanisms of visual selective attention. , 1995, Psychophysiology.

[8]  S. Baron-Cohen,et al.  Another advanced test of theory of mind: evidence from very high functioning adults with autism or asperger syndrome. , 1997, Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines.

[9]  N. Kanwisher,et al.  The Fusiform Face Area: A Module in Human Extrastriate Cortex Specialized for Face Perception , 1997, The Journal of Neuroscience.

[10]  K. Rayner.  Eye movements in reading and information processing: 20 years of research. , 1998, Psychological bulletin.

[11]  W. Klimesch,et al.  Induced alpha band power changes in the human EEG and attention , 1998, Neuroscience Letters.

[12]  Nirbhay N. Singh,et al.  Facial Expressions of Emotion , 1998 .

[13]  W. Klimesch.  EEG alpha and theta oscillations reflect cognitive and memory performance: a review and analysis , 1999, Brain Research Reviews.

[14]  M. Eimer.  The face‐specific N170 component reflects late stages in the structural encoding of faces , 2000, Neuroreport.

[15]  E. Bullmore,et al.  The amygdala theory of autism , 2000, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.

[16]  V. Bruce,et al.  Do the eyes have it? Cues to the direction of social attention , 2000, Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

[17]  D. Perrett,et al.  Imitation, mirror neurons and autism , 2001, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.

[18]  E. Basar,et al.  Gamma, alpha, delta, and theta oscillations govern cognitive processes. , 2001, International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology.

[19]  S. Baron-Cohen,et al.  The "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" Test revised version: a study with normal adults, and adults with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism. , 2001, Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines.

[20]  Tristram H. Smith,et al.  A Review of Subtyping in Autism and Proposed Dimensional Classification Model , 2001, Journal of autism and developmental disorders.

[21]  R. Ihl,et al.  EEG-correlates of facial affect recognition and categorisation of blurred faces in schizophrenic patients and healthy volunteers , 2001, Schizophrenia Research.

[22]  J. Piven,et al.  Visual Scanning of Faces in Autism , 2002, Journal of autism and developmental disorders.

[23]  R. Adolphs.  Neural systems for recognizing emotion , 2002, Current Opinion in Neurobiology.

[24]  H. Engeland,et al.  Gaze behavior of children with pervasive developmental disorder toward human faces: a fixation time study. , 2002, Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines.

[25]  L. M. Ward,et al.  Synchronous neural oscillations and cognitive processes , 2003, Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

[26]  P. Schyns,et al.  A principled method for determining the functionality of brain responses , 2003, Neuroreport.

[27]  S. Bölte,et al.  The recognition of facial affect in autistic and schizophrenic subjects and their first-degree relatives , 2003, Psychological Medicine.

[28]  D. Maurer,et al.  Developmental changes in face processing skills. , 2003, Journal of experimental child psychology.

[29]  Margot J. Taylor,et al.  Early processing of the six basic facial emotional expressions. , 2003, Brain research. Cognitive brain research.

[30]  Mark H Johnson,et al.  Development of face-sensitive event-related potentials during infancy: a review. , 2003, International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology.

[31]  Geraldine Dawson,et al.  Young children with autism show atypical brain responses to fearful versus neutral facial expressions of emotion. , 2004, Developmental science.

[32]  Mark H Johnson,et al.  Face-sensitive cortical processing in early infancy. , 2004, Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines.

[33]  R. Dolan,et al.  Encoding of emotional memories depends on amygdala and hippocampus and their interactions , 2004, Nature Neuroscience.

[34]  Robert C. Lee,et al.  STANDARD QUALITY ASSESSMENT CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING PRIMARY RESEARCH PAPERS FROM A VARIETY OF FIELDS , 2004 .

[35]  M. Phillips,et al.  Annotation: Development of facial expression recognition from childhood to adolescence: behavioural and neurological perspectives. , 2004, Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines.

[36]  G. Rizzolatti,et al.  The mirror-neuron system. , 2004, Annual review of neuroscience.

[37]  F. Castelli,et al.  Understanding emotions from standardized facial expressions in autism and normal development , 2005, Autism : the international journal of research and practice.

[38]  J. Pineda.  The functional significance of mu rhythms: Translating “seeing” and “hearing” into “doing” , 2005, Brain Research Reviews.

[39]  J. Hamm,et al.  The neurophysiological correlates of face processing in adults and children with Asperger’s syndrome , 2005, Brain and Cognition.

[40]  H. Meeren,et al.  Rapid perceptual integration of facial expression and emotional body language. , 2005, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

[41]  Kim M. Dalton,et al.  Gaze fixation and the neural circuitry of face processing in autism , 2005, Nature Neuroscience.

[42]  Urs Maurer,et al.  The face-specific N170 component is modulated by emotional facial expression , 2007, Behavioral and Brain Functions.

[43]  J. Piven,et al.  Looking you in the mouth: abnormal gaze in autism resulting from impaired top-down modulation of visual attention. , 2006, Social cognitive and affective neuroscience.

[44]  Melissa E. Libertus,et al.  Electrophysiological evidence for notation independence in numerical processing , 2007, Behavioral and Brain Functions.

[45]  Jennifer Hudson,et al.  Anxiety in Adolescents With Asperger Syndrome: Negative Thoughts, Behavioral Problems, and Life Interference , 2006 .

[46]  J. Hamm,et al.  Neurophysiological responses to face, facial regions and objects in adults with Asperger's syndrome: an ERP investigation. , 2007, International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology.

[47]  Gerd Lehmkuhl,et al.  Do hyperactivity, impulsivity and inattention have an impact on the ability of facial affect recognition in children with autism and ADHD? , 2008, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

[48]  Charles A Nelson,et al.  An ERP study of emotional face processing in the adult and infant brain. , 2007, Child development.

[49]  A. Slater,et al.  Assessing emotion recognition in 9–15-years olds: Preliminary analysis of abilities in reading emotion from faces, voices and eyes , 2007, Brain injury.

[50]  Gereon R. Fink,et al.  Mirror Neuron and Theory of Mind Mechanisms Involved in Face-to-Face Interactions: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Approach to Empathy , 2007, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

[51]  V. Gallese.  Before and below ‘theory of mind’: embodied simulation and the neural correlates of social cognition , 2007, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

[52]  J. Piven,et al.  Orienting to social stimuli differentiates social cognitive impairment in autism and schizophrenia , 2007, Neuropsychologia.

[53]  Kevin S LaBar,et al.  Development of emotional facial recognition in late childhood and adolescence. , 2007, Developmental science.

[54]  Joseph Piven,et al.  Abnormal Use of Facial Information in High-Functioning Autism , 2007, Journal of autism and developmental disorders.

[55]  Joseph Piven,et al.  Analysis of face gaze in autism using “Bubbles” , 2007, Neuropsychologia.

[56]  Michael G. Strintzis,et al.  Face Recognition , 2008, Encyclopedia of Multimedia.

[57]  Maartje C de Jong,et al.  Attentional effects of gaze shifts are influenced by emotion and spatial frequency, but not in autism. , 2008, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

[58]  F. Leijten,et al.  Continuous EEG monitoring in the Intensive Care Unit , 2008 .

[59]  H. Engeland,et al.  Atypical processing of fearful face–voice pairs in Pervasive Developmental Disorder: An ERP study , 2008, Clinical Neurophysiology.

[60]  Richard J Davidson,et al.  Brain function and gaze fixation during facial‐emotion processing in fragile X and autism , 2008, Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research.

[61]  M. D. Rutherford,et al.  Scan Path Differences and Similarities During Emotion Perception in those With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorders , 2008, Journal of autism and developmental disorders.

[62]  D. Skuse,et al.  Avoidance of emotionally arousing stimuli predicts social–perceptual impairment in Asperger's syndrome , 2008, Neuropsychologia.

[63]  Christopher K. Kovach,et al.  Rapid Interactions between the Ventral Visual Stream and Emotion-Related Structures Rely on a Two-Pathway Architecture , 2008, The Journal of Neuroscience.

[64]  Teresa K. W. Wong,et al.  Abnormal spatiotemporal processing of emotional facial expressions in childhood autism: dipole source analysis of event‐related potentials , 2008, The European journal of neuroscience.

[65]  Sarah-Jayne Blakemore,et al.  Brief Report: Perception of Genuine and Posed Smiles by Individuals with Autism , 2008, Journal of autism and developmental disorders.

[66]  W. Klimesch,et al.  What does phase information of oscillatory brain activity tell us about cognitive processes? , 2008, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.

[67]  Claes von Hofsten,et al.  Young children with Autism Spectrum Disorder look differently at positive versus negative emotional faces , 2008 .

[68]  G. Baird,et al.  Psychiatric disorders in children with autism spectrum disorders: prevalence, comorbidity, and associated factors in a population-derived sample. , 2008, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

[69]  P. Enticott,et al.  Mirror neuron activation is associated with facial emotion processing , 2008, Neuropsychologia.

[70]  V. Sinha,et al.  Event-related potential: An overview , 2009, Industrial psychiatry journal.

[71]  C. Barthélémy,et al.  Exploration of core features of a human face by healthy and autistic adults analyzed by visual scanning , 2009, Neuropsychologia.

[72]  Zeno Bisoffi,et al.  The Role of Rapid Diagnostic Tests in Managing Malaria , 2009, PLoS medicine.

[73]  Mark H. Johnson,et al.  Atypical eye contact in autism: Models, mechanisms and development , 2009, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.

[74]  S. Bölte,et al.  Emotion Recognition in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders , 2009, Journal of autism and developmental disorders.

[75]  Gregory Hickok,et al.  Eight Problems for the Mirror Neuron Theory of Action Understanding in Monkeys and Humans , 2009, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

[76]  J. Biederman,et al.  The Heavy Burden of Psychiatric Comorbidity in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Large Comparative Study of a Psychiatrically Referred Population , 2010, Journal of autism and developmental disorders.

[77]  S. Porges,et al.  Emotion Recognition in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Relations to Eye Gaze and Autonomic State , 2010, Journal of autism and developmental disorders.

[78]  Michele Tarsilla.  Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions , 2010, Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation.

[79]  H. Heekeren,et al.  Atypical Reflexive Gaze Patterns on Emotional Faces in Autism Spectrum Disorders , 2010, The Journal of Neuroscience.

[80]  A. Senju,et al.  The effect of gaze direction on the processing of facial expressions in children with autism spectrum disorder: An ERP study , 2010, Neuropsychologia.

[81]  Petra Vlamings,et al.  Basic Abnormalities in Visual Processing Affect Face Processing at an Early Age in Autism Spectrum Disorder , 2010, Biological Psychiatry.

[82]  Christopher Gillberg,et al.  Face scanning distinguishes social from communication impairments in autism. , 2010, Developmental science.

[83]  Alex Martin,et al.  Facial Emotion Recognition in Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Review of Behavioral and Neuroimaging Studies , 2010, Neuropsychology Review.

[84]  D. Moher,et al.  Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement. , 2010, International journal of surgery.

[85]  Arthur C. Tsai,et al.  Face recognition in Asperger syndrome: A study on EEG spectral power changes , 2011, Neuroscience Letters.

[86]  Margot J. Taylor,et al.  Early processing of emotional faces in children with autism: An event-related potential study. , 2011, Journal of experimental child psychology.

[87]  Isabel Dziobek,et al.  Autistic Symptomatology, Face Processing Abilities, and Eye Fixation Patterns , 2011, Journal of autism and developmental disorders.

[88]  B. de Gelder,et al.  Multisensory Integration and Attention in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials , 2011, PloS one.

[89]  M. Falkmer,et al.  Recognition of Facially Expressed Emotions and Visual Search Strategies in Adults with Asperger Syndrome. , 2011 .

[90]  S. Bölte,et al.  Neurofeedback in autism spectrum disorders , 2011, Developmental medicine and child neurology.

[91]  M. Eimer,et al.  The N170 component and its links to configural face processing: A rapid neural adaptation study , 2011, Brain Research.

[92]  Erin B. McClure-Tone,et al.  Behavioral and Neural Representation of Emotional Facial Expressions Across the Lifespan , 2011, Developmental neuropsychology.

[93]  Martin Eimer,et al.  The Face-Sensitivity of the N170 Component , 2011, Front. Hum. Neurosci..

[94]  Jessica L. Tracy,et al.  Is Emotion Recognition Impaired in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders? , 2010, Journal of autism and developmental disorders.

[95]  Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg,et al.  Evidence for a general face salience signal in human amygdala , 2011, NeuroImage.

[96]  G. Alpers,et al.  Happy mouth and sad eyes: scanning emotional facial expressions. , 2011, Emotion.

[97]  Gennady G. Knyazev,et al.  Cross-frequency coupling of brain oscillations in studying motivation and emotion , 2011, Motivation and Emotion.

[98]  J. Cohn,et al.  The eyes have it: making positive expressions more positive and negative expressions more negative. , 2012, Emotion.

[99]  Ayman S El-Baz,et al.  INDUCED EEG GAMMA OSCILLATION ALIGNMENT IMPROVES DIFFERENTIATION BETWEEN AUTISM AND ADHD GROUP RESPONSES IN A FACIAL CATEGORIZATION TASK. , 2012, Journal of neurotherapy.

[100]  Jennifer A. Walsh,et al.  Visual Afterimages of Emotional Faces in High Functioning Autism , 2012, Journal of autism and developmental disorders.

[101]  R. McCarley,et al.  Emotional Cues during Simultaneous Face and Voice Processing: Electrophysiological Insights , 2012, PloS one.

[102]  Paul Williamson,et al.  Can Gaze Avoidance Explain Why Individuals with Asperger’s Syndrome Can’t Recognise Emotions From Facial Expressions? , 2012, Journal of autism and developmental disorders.

[103]  N. Kanwisher,et al.  Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews Face Identity Recognition in Autism Spectrum Disorders: a Review of Behavioral Studies , 2022 .

[104]  Jürgen Baudewig,et al.  The Role of the Amygdala in Atypical Gaze on Emotional Faces in Autism Spectrum Disorders , 2012, The Journal of Neuroscience.

[105]  Lindsey A. Short,et al.  The Influence of Shyness on the Scanning of Own- and Other-Race Faces in Adults , 2012, PloS one.

[106]  Paul D. Kieffaber,et al.  Measuring affective reactivity in individuals with autism spectrum personality traits using the visual mismatch negativity event-related brain potential , 2012, Front. Hum. Neurosci..

[107]  Long Wang,et al.  Win-Stay-Lose-Learn Promotes Cooperation in the Spatial Prisoner's Dilemma Game , 2012, PloS one.

[108]  D. Cruess,et al.  Differentiating High-Functioning Autism and Social Phobia , 2012, Journal of autism and developmental disorders.

[109]  Antonia Hamilton,et al.  Recognition of Emotions in Autism: A Formal Meta-Analysis , 2013, Journal of autism and developmental disorders.

[110]  C. Dissanayake,et al.  Reactivity to fearful expressions of familiar and unfamiliar people in children with autism: an eye-tracking pupillometry study , 2014, Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

[111]  Jan K. Buitelaar,et al.  Is EEG-biofeedback an Effective Treatment in Autism Spectrum Disorders? A Randomized Controlled Trial , 2013, Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback.

[112]  James P. Morris,et al.  Multimodal emotion processing in autism spectrum disorders: An event-related potential study , 2013, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.

[113]  O. Ousley,et al.  Autism Spectrum Disorder: Defining Dimensions and Subgroups , 2014, Current Developmental Disorders Reports.

[114]  L. Campbell,et al.  Divergent Patterns of Social Cognition Performance in Autism and 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome (22q11DS) , 2013, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

[115]  S. Tobimatsu,et al.  Altered automatic face processing in individuals with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders: Evidence from visual evoked potentials , 2013 .

[116]  P. Grant,et al.  Dopaminergic foundations of schizotypy as measured by the German version of the Oxford-Liverpool Inventory of Feelings and Experiences (O-LIFE)—a suitable endophenotype of schizophrenia , 2013, Front. Hum. Neurosci..

[117]  D. Riby,et al.  Spontaneous attention to faces in Asperger syndrome using ecologically valid static stimuli , 2013, Autism : the international journal of research and practice.

[118]  N. Cooper,et al.  Beta event-related desynchronization as an index of individual differences in processing human facial expression: further investigations of autistic traits in typically developing adults , 2013, Front. Hum. Neurosci..

[119]  Giacomo Vivanti,et al.  Are emotion impairments unique to, universal, or specific in autism spectrum disorder? A comprehensive review , 2013, Cognition & emotion.

[120]  Pat Mirenda,et al.  Investigating phenotypic heterogeneity in children with autism spectrum disorder: a factor mixture modeling approach. , 2012, Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines.

[121]  Charles A. Nelson,et al.  Eye-Tracking, Autonomic, and Electrophysiological Correlates of Emotional Face Processing in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder , 2013, Journal of autism and developmental disorders.

[122]  Nilanjan Sarkar,et al.  Understanding How Adolescents with Autism Respond to Facial Expressions in Virtual Reality Environments , 2013, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.

[123]  M. Falkmer,et al.  Facial emotion recognition and visual search strategies of children with high functioning autism and Asperger syndrome , 2013 .

[124]  J. Wagemans,et al.  No Differences in Emotion Recognition Strategies in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Evidence from Hybrid Faces , 2014, Autism research and treatment.

[125]  P. Bolton,et al.  Altered neurophysiological responses to emotional faces discriminate children with ASD, ADHD and ASD+ADHD , 2014, Biological Psychology.

[126]  M. Barr,et al.  Age-related differences in working memory evoked gamma oscillations , 2014, Brain Research.

[127]  Nim Tottenham,et al.  Elevated amygdala response to faces and gaze aversion in autism spectrum disorder. , 2014, Social cognitive and affective neuroscience.

[128]  Michael K. Yeung,et al.  Altered right frontal cortical connectivity during facial emotion recognition in children with autism spectrum disorders , 2014 .

[129]  C. Dissanayake,et al.  Pupillometry reveals reduced unconscious emotional reactivity in autism , 2014, Biological Psychology.

[130]  J. VanMeter,et al.  Impairments in facial affect recognition associated with autism spectrum disorders: A meta-analysis , 2014, Development and Psychopathology.

[131]  Nilanjan Sarkar,et al.  Assessing the Utility of a Virtual Environment for Enhancing Facial Affect Recognition in Adolescents with Autism , 2014, Journal of autism and developmental disorders.

[132]  J. Nadel,et al.  Morphing technique reveals intact perception of object motion and disturbed perception of emotional expressions by low-functioning adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder. , 2015, Research in developmental disabilities.

[133]  G. Arbanas.  Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) , 2015 .

[134]  R. Itier,et al.  Autistic traits influence gaze-oriented attention to happy but not fearful faces , 2015, Social neuroscience.

[135]  S. White,et al.  Fear of Negative Evaluation Influences Eye Gaze in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Pilot Study , 2015, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

[136]  M. Falkmer,et al.  Face Recognition and Visual Search Strategies in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Amending and Extending a Recent Review by Weigelt et al. , 2015, PloS one.

[137]  Yuejia Luo,et al.  The time course of emotional picture processing: an event-related potential study using a rapid serial visual presentation paradigm , 2015, Front. Psychol..

[138]  S. White,et al.  Comorbid Social Anxiety Disorder in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder , 2015, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

[139]  S. Bölte,et al.  Training-induced plasticity of the social brain in autism spectrum disorder , 2015, British Journal of Psychiatry.

[140]  Giles M. Anderson,et al.  Implicit Discrimination of Basic Facial Expressions of Positive/Negative Emotion in Fragile X Syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorder. , 2015, American journal on intellectual and developmental disabilities.

[141]  L. Vizioli,et al.  Mapping the development of facial expression recognition. , 2015, Developmental science.

[142]  W. Stone,et al.  Positive Affect Processing and Joint Attention in Infants at High Risk for Autism: An Exploratory Study , 2015, Journal of autism and developmental disorders.

[143]  Yi-Li Tseng,et al.  Voluntary attention in Asperger's syndrome: Brain electrical oscillation and phase-synchronization during facial emotion recognition , 2015 .

[144]  Anbupalam Thalamuthu,et al.  The Prevalence of Mild Cognitive Impairment in Diverse Geographical and Ethnocultural Regions: The COSMIC Collaboration , 2015, PloS one.

[145]  Sven Bölte,et al.  Facial affect recognition in autism, ADHD and typical development , 2016, Cognitive neuropsychiatry.

[146]  Ofer Golan,et al.  Basic and complex emotion recognition in children with autism: cross-cultural findings , 2016, Molecular Autism.

[147]  J. Tanaka,et al.  The “Eye Avoidance” Hypothesis of Autism Face Processing , 2016, Journal of autism and developmental disorders.

[148]  G. B. Young,et al.  Continuous EEG monitoring in the intensive care unit. , 2017, Handbook of clinical neurology.

[149]  J. Higgins,et al.  Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions , 2010, International Coaching Psychology Review.