arxivcs.AIcs.LG2026-07-09
AI-guided stimuli discovery and generation to optimize facial emotion perception studies in autism
Kushin Mukherjee, Na Yeon Kim, Maren Wehrheim, Ralph Adolphs, Kohitij Kar
Understanding perceptual differences between autistic and neurotypical adults requires behavioral assays that are sensitive, reliable, and mechanistically informative. Facial emotion perception is a useful test case because group differences have been reported, but findings vary…