2012
The perception and identification of facial emotions in individuals with autism spectrum disorders using the Let’s Face It! Emotion Skills Battery
Tanaka JW, Wolf JM, Klaiman C, Koenig K, Cockburn J, Herlihy L, Brown C, Stahl SS, South M, McPartland JC, Kaiser MD, Schultz RT. The perception and identification of facial emotions in individuals with autism spectrum disorders using the Let’s Face It! Emotion Skills Battery. Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry 2012, 53: 1259-1267. PMID: 22780332, PMCID: PMC3505257, DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2012.02571.x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAutism spectrum disorderFacial emotionsTDC participantsPerceptual skillsASD participantsSpectrum disorderEffective social communicationBasic facial emotionsSocial emotional abilitiesDifferent facial identitiesGroups of participantsHolistic encodingAngry expressionsExpression processingFacial identityExpression taskPerceptual strategiesExpressive facesSocial deficitsSocial communicationEmotionsComputer-based assessmentControl participantsHolistic recognitionMouth features
2010
The scope of social attention deficits in autism: Prioritized orienting to people and animals in static natural scenes
New JJ, Schultz RT, Wolf J, Niehaus JL, Klin A, German TC, Scholl BJ. The scope of social attention deficits in autism: Prioritized orienting to people and animals in static natural scenes. Neuropsychologia 2010, 48: 51-59. PMID: 19686766, PMCID: PMC6102729, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.08.008.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAnimalsAttention Deficit Disorder with HyperactivityChildChild Development Disorders, PervasiveCuesFemaleHumansInterpersonal RelationsMaleMultivariate AnalysisNeuropsychological TestsOrientationPhotic StimulationReaction TimeRecognition, PsychologySignal Detection, PsychologicalSocial PerceptionStatistics as TopicConceptsAutism spectrum disorderSocial attention deficitsSocial attentionAttention deficitsNatural scenesLow-level visual factorsSpecific social cuesStatic natural scenesComplex natural scenesAttentional prioritizationSocial cuesVisual processingRelevant stimuliSpectrum disorderVisual factorsAnimate categoriesControl participantsUnitary phenomenonInanimate objectsAutismSocial agentsImpairmentDeficitsCentral featureAttention
2008
Specific impairment of face‐processing abilities in children with autism spectrum disorder using the Let's Face It! skills battery
Wolf JM, Tanaka JW, Klaiman C, Cockburn J, Herlihy L, Brown C, South M, McPartland J, Kaiser MD, Phillips R, Schultz RT. Specific impairment of face‐processing abilities in children with autism spectrum disorder using the Let's Face It! skills battery. Autism Research 2008, 1: 329-340. PMID: 19360688, PMCID: PMC4589218, DOI: 10.1002/aur.56.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAutism spectrum disorderCategory-specific impairmentConfigural informationASD participantsSpectrum disorderFace-processing abilitiesLocal processing biasFace-processing deficitsFace recognition abilityFace discrimination taskPerceptual biasFeatural informationLocal-level informationDiscrimination taskExhibit difficultiesSpecific impairmentEye regionFace representationRecognition abilityMouth regionNormal abilityLarge sampleImpairmentTaskChildren