Journal article
Enhanced Salience and Emotion Recognition in Autism: A PET Study
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: This study examined neural activation of facial stimuli in autism when the salience of emotional cues was increased by prosodic information.
METHOD: Regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) was measured while eight high-functioning men with autism and eight men without autism performed an emotion-recognition task in which facial emotion stimuli were matched with prosodic voices and a baseline gender-recognition task.
Authors
Hall GBC; Szechtman H; Nahmias C
Journal
American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 160, No. 8, pp. 1439–1441
Publisher
American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Publication Date
August 2003
DOI
10.1176/appi.ajp.160.8.1439
ISSN
0002-953X