Stony Brook University recently opened up new opportunities for Long Island’s autism community to participate in and benefit from groundbreaking research.
Brains of individuals with autism successfully encode facial emotions, study reveals
A study that tested neural activity in the brains of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) reveals that they successfully encode facial emotions in their neural signals – and they do so about as well as those without ASD. Led by researchers at Stony Brook University, the research suggests that the difficulties ASD individuals have reading facial emotions arise from problems in translating facial emotion information they have successfully encoded, not because their brains fail to do so in the first place. The findings are published early online in
Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.