Myomancy ADHD, Dyslexia and Autism

The lack of understanding of other people’s emotions is one of the most difficult aspects of autism, both for the autistic person and those around them. Now a new study is suggesting that people with autism do respond to other people’s emotions but not in all the same areas of the brain as non-autistics do.
fMRI scans of autistics and non-autistics whilst they view pictures of faces that changed from one emotion to another revealed that the right amygdala showed limited response. Whereas the right superior temporal sulcus responded in a way very similar to non-autistic people.

The good folks at Eide Neurolearning Blog draw this conclusion: “For individual students, then it may mean that slow motion video (or morphing) and practice with emotional gesturing (mirroring as well as visually studying) may be the way to improve emotional perception and social cues. Facial movements are quicker and more subtle, and sometimes facial recognition areas significantly affected in autism“.
Study: Perception of Dynamic Changes in Facial Expressions of Emotion in Autism [PDF]