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Miller, Meghan; Hanford, Russell B.; Fassbender, Catherine; Duke, Marshall; Schweitzer, Julie B. – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2011
Objective: This study compared affect recognition abilities between adults with and without ADHD. Method: The sample consisted of 51 participants (34 men, 17 women) divided into 3 groups: ADHD-combined type (ADHD-C; n = 17), ADHD-predominantly inattentive type (ADHD-I; n = 16), and controls (n = 18). The mean age was 34 years. Affect recognition…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Adults, Affective Behavior
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Miyahara, Motohide; Ruffman, Ted; Fujita, Chikako; Tsujii, Masatsugu – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2010
The abilities to identify threat and learn about affect in facial photographs were compared between a non-autistic university student group (NUS), a matched Asperger's group (MAS) on the Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM), and an unmatched Asperger's group (UAS) who scored lower on the SPM. Participants were given pairs of faces and asked which…
Descriptors: Asperger Syndrome, Affective Behavior, Pictorial Stimuli, Comparative Analysis
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Nummenmaa, Lauri; Hyona, Jukka; Calvo, Manuel G. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2010
We compared the primacy of affective versus semantic categorization by using forced-choice saccadic and manual response tasks. Participants viewed paired emotional and neutral scenes involving humans or animals flashed rapidly in extrafoveal vision. Participants were instructed to categorize the targets by saccading toward the location occupied by…
Descriptors: Semantics, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Visual Stimuli
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Rose, Fredric E.; Lincoln, Alan J.; Lai, Zona; Ene, Michaela; Searcy, Yvonne M.; Bellugi, Ursula – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2007
We sought to clarify the nature of the face processing strength commonly observed in individuals with Williams syndrome (WS) by comparing the face recognition ability of persons with WS to that of persons with autism and to healthy controls under three conditions: Upright faces with neutral expressions, upright faces with varying affective…
Descriptors: Recognition (Psychology), Autism, Visual Perception, Affective Behavior