“…Two behavioral studies using emotional faces confirmed a propensity for processing local information and a deficit in global processing (Meaux et al, 2011(Meaux et al, , 2014a; however, these peculiarities were also observed for non-social stimuli (Bangel et al, 2014;Meaux et al, 2014d). We therefore suggest that while atypicalities in sensory and perceptual processing are not specific to the social domain (Clery et al, 2013c;Kovarski et al, 2017), they could strongly affect the development of social and emotional abilities in children with ASD.…”