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Castelli, Fulvia – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2005
The study investigated the recognition of standardized facial expressions of emotion (anger, fear, disgust, happiness, sadness, surprise) at a perceptual level (experiment 1) and at a semantic level (experiments 2 and 3) in children with autism (N= 20) and normally developing children (N= 20). Results revealed that children with autism were as…
Descriptors: Fear, Autism, Child Development, Emotional Response

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