Non-autistic adults can recognize posed autistic facial expressions: Implications for internal representations of emotion by Lampi, AJ, Brewer, R, Bird, G, Jaswal, VK

“…Autistic people report that their emotional expressions are sometimes misunderstood by non-autistic people. …”

No evidence for an opposite pattern of cognitive performance in autistic individuals with and without alexithymia: a response to Rødgaard et al. (2019) by Oakley, BFM, Brewer, R, Bird, G, Catmur, C

“…In their analysis of our cognitive Theory of Mind data, however, they did not control for autistic traits, which covary with alexithymia. Here we demonstrate that when autistic traits are controlled for, there is no significant association between alexithymia and cognitive theory of mind performance in participants with autism. …”

Differences in own-face but not own-name discrimination between autistic and neurotypical adults: a fast periodic visual stimulation-EEG study by Nijhof, A, Catmur, C, Brewer, R, Coll, M-P, Wiersema, J, Bird, G

“…Self-related processing is thought to be altered in autism, with several studies reporting that autistic individuals show a diminished neural response relative to neurotypicals for their own name and face. …”

Face perception in autism spectrum disorder: Modulation of holistic processing by facial emotion by Brewer, R, Bird, G, Gray, K, Cook, R

“…Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD; autistic individuals) may exhibit atypical face perception because they fail to process faces holistically. …”

Communicative misalignment in autism spectrum disorder by Brewer, R, Wadge, H, Bird, G, Toni, I, Stolk, A

“…This communicative misalignment explains why autistic individuals are vulnerable in everyday interactions, which entail fleeting ambiguities, but succeed in social cognition tests involving stereotyped contextual cues. …”

Interaction takes two: Typical adults exhibit mind-blindness towards those with Autism Spectrum Disorder by Edey, R, Cook, J, Brewer, R, Johnson, M, Bird, G, Press, C

“…In confirmation of our primary hypothesis, typical individuals were better able to identify the mental state portrayed in the animations produced by typical, relative to autistic, individuals. The participants with ASD did not show this "same group" advantage, demonstrating comparable performance for the 2 sets of animations. …”

Adults with autism spectrum disorder are sensitive to the kinematic features defining natural human motion by Edey, R, Cook, J, Brewer, R, Bird, G, Press, C

“…In Experiment 2, they judged which of two movements was “less natural,” where the stimuli varied in the degree to which they were a product of real movement data produced by autistic and typical models. There were no group differences in perceptual sensitivity in either experiment, with null effects supported by Bayesian analyses. …”