The Comparative Study of Facial Emotion Recognition Ability in ADHD individuals and individuals with High Functioning Autism / Asperger syndrome

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Authors	LIU Ling HUMPOLÍČEK Pavel
Year of publication	2013
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Klinická psychologie a osobnost
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Arts
Citation
Web	Digitální knihovna FF MU
Field	Psychology
Keywords	ADHD; High Functioning Autism; Asperger Syndrome; facial emotional recognition
Description	This study describes and compares the facial emotion recognition abilities and specific recognition profiles of ADHD individuals and HFA/AS individuals in review- related articles selected from the last 10 years. It is concluded that, in facial emotional recognition tasks, individuals from the HFA/AS groups out-perform those from the ADHD groups. HFA/AS groups showed impairments only for complex tasks which required the detection of subtle facial expressions. ADHD groups showed deficits for more simple facial labeling tasks. Directions calling for further study are pointed out.