Valence‐Arousal Asymmetry: Rethinking Facial Emotion Recognition in Preschool Autism Through Eye‐Tracking

This study challenges traditional discrete emotion categories by applying a valence-arousal framework to facial emotion recognition in preschool children with autism spectrum disorder through eye-tracking and pupilometry. The research highlights significant asymmetries in how individuals with ASD process emotional valence versus arousal, offering a more nuanced understanding of socioemotional impairments. These findings suggest that future assessments and interventions should prioritize dimensional affective processing over isolated emotion labels.

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