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Conscious and Non-conscious Representations of Emotional Faces in Asperger's Syndrome
Vincent S. C. Chien 1,2, Arthur C. Tsai 1, Han Hsuan Yang 3, Yi-Li Tseng 4, Alexander N. Savostyanov 5,6, Michelle Liou 1,7
1Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, 2Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, 3Department of Psychology, Fo Guang University, 4Department of Electrical Engineering, Fu Jen Catholic University, 5State Research Institute of Physiology and Basic Medicine, 6Novosibirsk State University, 7Imaging Research Center, Taipei Medical University

An EEG experimental protocol is designed to clarify the interplay between conscious and non-conscious representations of emotional faces in patients with Asperger's syndrome. The technique suggests that patients with Asperger's syndrome have deficits in non-conscious representation of emotional faces, but have comparable performance in conscious representation with healthy controls.

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