Table 2. Mean Scores (and standard deviations) of children’s performance by group, task, and type of emotions (basic vs. social).

	TD	ASC
Recognition of basic emotions	3.91 (0.30)	3.90 (0.30)
Recognition of social emotions	3.91 (0.30)	3.27 (1.01)
Understanding of basic emotion	8.00 (0.00)	7.82 (0.60)
Understanding of social emotion	7.91 (0.30)	7.09 (1.22)
Quality of expression of basic emotions	8.64 (0.92)	7.64 (1.12)
Quality of expression of social emotions	6.18 (3.03)	4.27 (1.85)
Quantity of expression of basic emotions	3.64 (1.57)	2.09 (0.30)
Quantity of expression of social emotions	3.09 (1.81)	1.45 (1.13)