eprintid: 10047232 rev_number: 28 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/04/72/32 datestamp: 2018-04-23 12:07:06 lastmod: 2022-01-03 23:34:01 status_changed: 2018-04-23 12:07:06 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Karaminis, T creators_name: Neil, L creators_name: Manning, C creators_name: Turi, M creators_name: Fiorentini, C creators_name: Burr, D creators_name: Pellicano, E title: Reprint of "Investigating ensemble perception of emotions in autistic and typical children and adolescents" ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B16 divisions: B14 divisions: J81 divisions: B02 divisions: C07 divisions: D05 keywords: Ensemble perception, Autism, Summary statistics, Facial expressions, Emotions note: Copyright © 2017 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0/). abstract: Ensemble perception, the ability to assess automatically the summary of large amounts of information presented in visual scenes, is available early in typical development. This ability might be compromised in autistic children, who are thought to present limitations in maintaining summary statistics representations for the recent history of sensory input. Here we examined ensemble perception of facial emotional expressions in 35 autistic children, 30 age- and ability-matched typical children and 25 typical adults. Participants received three tasks: a) an ‘ensemble’ emotion discrimination task; b) a baseline (single-face) emotion discrimination task; and c) a facial expression identification task. Children performed worse than adults on all three tasks. Unexpectedly, autistic and typical children were, on average, indistinguishable in their precision and accuracy on all three tasks. Computational modelling suggested that, on average, autistic and typical children used ensemble-encoding strategies to a similar extent; but ensemble perception was related to non-verbal reasoning abilities in autistic but not in typical children. Eye-movement data also showed no group differences in the way children attended to the stimuli. Our combined findings suggest that the abilities of autistic and typical children for ensemble perception of emotions are comparable on average. date: 2018-01 date_type: published official_url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2018.02.003 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green article_type_text: Journal Article verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1549673 doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2018.02.003 lyricists_name: Neil, Louise lyricists_name: Pellicano, Elizabeth lyricists_id: LENEI79 lyricists_id: LPELL25 actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette actors_id: BFFLY94 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience volume: 29 pagerange: 97-107 issn: 1878-9307 citation: Karaminis, T; Neil, L; Manning, C; Turi, M; Fiorentini, C; Burr, D; Pellicano, E; (2018) Reprint of "Investigating ensemble perception of emotions in autistic and typical children and adolescents". Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience , 29 pp. 97-107. 10.1016/j.dcn.2018.02.003 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2018.02.003>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10047232/1/1-s2.0-S1878929318300331-main.pdf