Seminar · Clinical Psychology
Is it Autism or Alexithymia? explaining atypical socioemotional processing
Hélio Clemente Cuve · University of Oxford
Tue, Dec 1, 2020 · 16:00 UTC
Emotion processing is thought to be impaired in autism and linked to atypical visual exploration and arousal modulation to others faces and gaze, yet evidence is equivocal. We propose that, where observed, atypical socioemotional processing is due to alexithymia, a distinct but frequently co-occurring condition which affects emotional self-awareness and Interoception. In study 1 (N = 80), we tested this hypothesis by studying the spatio-temporal dynamics and entropy of eye-gaze during emotion processing tasks. Evidence from traditional and novel methods revealed that atypical eye-gaze and emot