Autistic children tend to show divergent social information processing, and controversies
exist regarding the mechanisms underlying this processing. In this article, we summarize …

Background Individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) commonly
experience difficulties maintaining social gaze with others during interactions. Although …

The Reading the Mind in the Eyes test (RMET) is a widely used measure of theory of mind
(ToM). Despite its popularity, there are questions regarding the RMET's psychometric …

Objective Most previous studies have examined emotion recognition in autism spectrum
condition (ASC) without intellectual disability (ID). However, ASC and ID co-occur to a high …

Nonverbal expressions are essential to regulating social communication and interaction.
Impaired emotion recognition from facial expressions has been linked to various psychiatric …

Prior studies have compared neural connectivity during mentalizing tasks in autism (ASD) to
non-autistic individuals and found reduced connectivity between the inferior frontal gyrus …

Introduction Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder clinically
characterized by abnormalities in eye contact during social exchanges. We aimed to clarify …

Social touch, an important aspect of social interaction and communication, is essential to
kinship across animal species. How animals experience and respond to social touch has not …

Altered nonverbal communication patterns especially with regard to gaze interactions are
commonly reported for persons with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In this study we …

Many so-called “high functioning” autistic individuals struggle with daily living skills, and
have poorer than expected adult outcomes in employment, relationships, and quality of life …