Topic: multiunit spiking activity

Recognizing others’ emotions based on facial expressions is a core component of human social interactions. Previous studies (Wang and Adolphs 2017) have suggested that autistic individuals show differences in their facial emotion recognition compared to neurotypical adults. What are the neural mechanisms that account for these observed differences? Here we lay the groundwork for a new approach combining cutting-edge computational and empirical non-human primate work to test theories of atypical facial emotion recognition in autistic adults. In a recent study, the author(s) observed that artifi