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.
Chien, V. S. C., Tsai, A. C., Yang, H. H., Tseng, Y., Savostyanov, A. N., Liou, M. Conscious and Non-conscious Representations of Emotional Faces in Asperger's Syndrome. J. Vis. Exp. (113), e53962, doi:10.3791/53962 (2016).