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31 Mar 2017, 12:15 am

Children with autism find understanding facial expressions difficult

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Sarah Griffiths, one of the study's researchers who completed the study as part of her PhD at the University of Bristol but is now based at the University of Cambridge's Autism Research Centre, said: "This study is important as previous research provided very mixed results with some finding individuals with autism less accurate in recognising expressions on average, and others finding no difference. In this study we used an online platform to run a larger study to answer this question more conclusively and found that individuals with autism are on average a bit less accurate at recognising emotion from faces."


These studies indicate that facial recognition is a best a mild trait not a defining one that it is thought of now.


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31 Mar 2017, 1:06 am

Interesting but isnt this already common knowledge?


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31 Mar 2017, 2:49 am

I score really low on those.