absrtact   aim and background: autistic traits may present in normal population without interfering with daily functionings. the present investigation is to find factor structure and validation of broad autism phenotype questionaire (bapq) and comparing psychometric structures of it with autsim quotient (aq). methods and materials: in this correlational study, 351 students in shahid beheshti un...

Establishing whether implicit responses to emotional cues are intact in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is fundamental to ascertaining why their emotional understanding is compromised. We used a temporal bisection task to assess for responsiveness to face and wildlife images that varied in emotional salience. There were no significant differences between an adult ASD and comparison group, with b...