Publications by authors named "Tim Schnitzler"
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- The COVID-19 pandemic made face masks mandatory, which hindered emotional recognition by covering the lower part of the face where many people tend to focus.
- A study compared emotion recognition abilities between individuals with autism spectrum condition (ASC) and those without, using images shown with masks, uncovered, and with sunglasses.
- Results indicated that individuals with ASC had a lower accuracy in recognizing emotions across all image conditions, particularly struggling with emotions like anger, fear, pride, and embarrassment, without showing significant differences in eye-gazing patterns compared to those without ASC.
Since the first description by Leo Kanner, individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have been attributed a reduced empathy. However, it has not yet been clarified how empathy is specifically impaired in autism. Typically, scholars distinguish between the affective and the cognitive dimensions of empathy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPerceptual learning requires the generalization of categorical perceptual sensitivity from trained to untrained items. For degraded speech, perceptual learning modulates activation in a left-lateralized network, including inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and inferior parietal cortex (IPC). Here we demonstrate that facilitatory anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS(anodal)) can induce perceptual learning in healthy humans.
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