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In some instances, social interactions can prove to be very difficult for those suffering from autism, and a new study from the Durham University, in the United Kingdom, shows that this may be attributed to their poor ability to observe and process the body language of those in front of them. This leads patients to be inaccurate in their assessments of how the persons they are talking to are feeling, which can lead to embarrassing situations, and less interactions with others overall. In the experiments, experts from the university asked a number of individuals suffering from the autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to identify what emotions were being conveyed from a series of short clips. The movies did not have sounds, nor did they show the face of the person in question. For the most part, the participants proved unable to accurately determine how the people in the movies were feeling, despite the fact that only simple emotions such as fear, happiness, anger, disgust and sa!
dness were expressed. Durham University Psychology Department Dr. Anthony Atkinson believes that people with autism have trouble reading body movements because they process some basic visual information differently from healthy individuals. The expert, who has also been the leader of the new study, says that the data...
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