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Attention Bias of Emotional Body Language in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Received date: 2022-09-11
Online published: 2023-07-14
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Emotional body language is a typical non-literal form of language to convey emotional information in social situations. This study investigated the characteristics and cognitive mechanisms of emotional body language processing in individuals with autism in terms of attentional bias. In Experiment 1, the participants were presented with emotional body language images of happiness, anger and fear by using the dot detection paradigm. The results showed that no attentional bias to certain kinds of emotional body language was found in the autism group. In Experiment 2, free browsing paradigm with higher ecological validity was used to investigate the eye movement characteristics of the emotional body language images in the individuals with autism. The results showed that avoidance to sad body language, facilitation to happy body language and difficulty of disengagement to happy body language were found in the autism group. The results indicate that attentional bias characteristics of emotional body language in the individuals with autism are different. The free browsing paradigm has higher sensitivity and validity on recognizing attentional bias of emotional body language.
Chengshi LI , Hongjun JIANG , Jinsheng HU . Attention Bias of Emotional Body Language in Autism Spectrum Disorders[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2023 , 21(3) : 296 -303 . DOI: 10.12139/j.1672-0628.2023.03.002
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