Previous research suggests that the effects of the direction of gaze on processing of facial expression may be atypical in children with ASD. In one study, typically developing 9- to 14-year-old children were faster to recognize fearful and angry faces when they were paired with a motivationally congruent direction of gaze (e.g., anger with direct gaze, fear with averted gaze) than when gaze and expression were incongruent. This effect was absent in children with ASD. In a second study, typically developing 9- to 14-year-old children showed greater amplitude in the N170 ERP component for congruent combinations of expression and gaze than for incongruent combinations. This result may reflect more extensive cortical processing of expressions presented with a congruent direction of gaze. This effect was also absent in children with ASD. In sum, children with ASD do not show evidence of typical interactions between perceptions of expression and gaze, when measured by either behavioural or neural indices.