“Doesn’t make eye contact”: It’s often noted that autistic individuals don’t do this. Science Daily reports on new research that it’s society and cultural norms that influence how people recognize each other’s faces:
Lead researcher Dr Roberto Caldara [of the University of Glasgow] said: “In a series of eye-movement studies, we showed that social experience has an impact on how people look at faces. Specifically we noticed a striking difference in eye movements in Westerners and East Asian observers. We found that Westerners tend to look at specific features on an individual’s face such as the eyes and mouth whereas East …read more