Social and emotional processing in the broader autism phenotype

The aim of this thesis was to examine social-emotional processing in typically developing individuals with high and low autistic traits, by using electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography. A subsidiary aim was to gain information about the relation between genetics and socio-emotional processing within autism through examination of first-degree relatives of people with autism. Results showed that people with high autistic traits and also parents and adults siblings of people with autism have some similarities with autism in processing of socio-emotional information. Results provide a new insight into emotion processing and autism and shows importance of looking at autism as genetic disorder.