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Autistic traits (AT) in neurotypical adults do not impact how they visually process emotional faces. This study found no link between autistic traits and gaze patterns when viewing happy, fearful, or neutral expressions.

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  • Psychology
  • Autism Research

Background:

  • Atypical emotional face processing is characteristic of autism spectrum disorder.
  • It is hypothesized that milder forms of these processing differences may exist in the general population.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between autistic traits and visual gaze behavior in neurotypical adults.
  • To determine if autistic traits influence the processing of emotional facial expressions.

Main Methods:

  • Validated naturalistic videos of happy, fearful, and neutral faces.
  • Eye-tracking technology used to record gaze behavior in 67 neurotypical adults.
  • Participants viewed videos in a counterbalanced order.

Main Results:

  • Participants generally looked longer at emotional faces compared to neutral faces.
  • Facial feature exploration varied significantly across different emotional conditions.
  • Autistic traits did not correlate with viewing patterns, time to first fixation, or early fixation counts.

Conclusions:

  • Autistic traits in the general neurotypical population do not appear to affect the visual processing of emotional faces.
  • Gaze behavior towards emotional stimuli is consistent across neurotypical individuals regardless of autistic trait levels.