Visual search for schematic affective faces: Stability and variability of search slopes with different instances

The Effect of Inversion on the Anger Superiority Effect in Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorders

“…This result is consistent with previous studies [2,3,[7][8][9]11]. Moreover, as we had hypothesized, TD children showed this effect even when faces were inverted.…”

“…ASE has been studied using a visual search paradigm in which participants searched for discrepant angry or happy faces in a crowd of distractor faces [4][5][6]. Several studies have confirmed that ASE can be observed with schematic-faces as well [1,[7][8][9][10]. By using schematic faces it is possible to eliminate many lowlevel perceptual variations found in photographs of emotional expressions, and to better control experiment variables.…”

Looking out for danger: An attentional bias towards spatially predictable threatening stimuli

“…Gerritsen, Frischen, Blake, Smilek, & Eastwood, 2008;Notebaert, Crombez, Van Damme, De Houwer, & Theeuwes, in press), indicating that threatening stimuli are prioritized over neutral stimuli, but do not automatically capture attention . This prioritization of threat has also been found in other studies that have controlled for methodological confounds (Gerritsen et al, 2008;Horstmann, 2009). …”

Visual search for basic emotional expressions in autism; impaired processing of anger, fear and sadness, but a typical happy face advantage

“…On account of the atypical population being assessed, we chose to use a methodology in which participants were required to look for a specific emotion (cf. Horstmann, 2009), rather than to detect an odd-one-out. The distracter emotion was therefore included to ensure procedural consistency across Visual Search for Emotional Expressions in Autism 8 participants.…”