What this paper adds
To the authors’ knowledge this is the first paper to evaluate the impact of a number of key factors which potentially influence
emotion recognition in people with ID, including task demand, stimulus type and processing style. In this context the paper
was also able to examine the two explanatory models proposed by Moore (2001) and Rojahn, Rabold, et al. (1995) by (a)
controlling for estimated IQ and (b) examining the impact of varying task demand and contextual information.