Darwin's Little-Known Psychology Study Aids Autism Research
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 - 13:50
in Psychology & Sociology
In 1872 Charles Darwin completed what may be the first example of a prospective "single-blind" study of human perception of emotional expression. Through scrutiny of Darwin's previously unpublished handwritten notes on his experiments, neuroscientists have demonstrated how this early experiment has direct implications to current work today in the areas of schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorders and other neuropsychiatric conditions. The appears in the Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. read more