Expression Recognition Difficulty Is Associated with Social but Not Attention-to-Detail Autistic Traits and Reflects Both Alexithymia and Perceptual Difficulty

Autor/inn/en	Bothe, Ellen; Palermo, Romina; Rhodes, Gillian; Burton, Nichola; Jeffery, Linda
Titel	Expression Recognition Difficulty Is Associated with Social but Not Attention-to-Detail Autistic Traits and Reflects Both Alexithymia and Perceptual Difficulty
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49 (2019) 11, S.4559-4571 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Bothe, Ellen)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-019-04158-y
Schlagwörter	Autism; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Recognition (Psychology); Nonverbal Communication; Interpersonal Competence; Communication (Thought Transfer); Perception; Attention; Emotional Response; Cognitive Processes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Recognition; Wiedererkennen; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Communication; thought; Kommunikation; Gedanke; Wahrnehmung; Aufmerksamkeit; Emotionales Verhalten; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess
Abstract	Autistic people often show difficulty with facial expression recognition. However, the degree of difficulty varies widely, which might reflect varying symptom profiles. We examined three domains of autistic traits in the typical population and found that more autistic-like social skills were associated with greater difficulty labelling expressions, and more autistic-like communication was associated with greater difficulty labelling and perceptually discriminating between expressions. There were no associations with autistic-like attention to detail. We also found that labelling, but not perceptual, difficulty was mediated by alexithymia. We found no evidence that labelling or perceptual difficulty was mediated by weakened adaptive coding. Results suggest expression recognition varies between the sub-clinical expressions of autistic symptom domains and reflects both co-occurring alexithymia and perceptual difficulty. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01