Recognition of emotional facial expressions is considered to be atypical in autism. This
difficulty is thought to be due to the way that facial expressions are visually explored.
Evidence for atypical visual exploration of emotional faces in autism is, however, equivocal.
We propose that, where observed, atypical visual exploration of emotional facial
expressions is due to alexithymia, a distinct but frequently co-occurring condition. In this eye-
tracking study we tested the alexithymia hypothesis using a number of recent …