Social Perception in High-Level Autism

Abstract

focus . . . is upon those of an infant's capacities that concern the perception of meaning in other people's bodily expressions / it is against such capacities that we might measure the severity and extent of [high-functioning] autistic children's social-perceptual disabilities / take the perception of emotionally expressive behavior as a paradigm case / attempt to highlight normal infants' capacities for emotion-related social perception, and to indicate the route by which infants come to experience themselves as both connected to and differentiated from other people as people with their own psychological orientations to the world (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)