Intermodal Matching of Emotional Expressions in Young Children with Autism

Autor/inn/en	Kahana-Kalman, Ronit; Goldman, Sylvie
Titel	Intermodal Matching of Emotional Expressions in Young Children with Autism
Quelle	In: Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2 (2008) 2, S.301-310 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1750-9467
DOI	10.1016/j.rasd.2007.07.004
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Autism; Young Children; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Nonverbal Communication; Comparative Analysis; Emotional Response; Visual Perception; Visual Discrimination; Auditory Perception + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Autismus; Frühe Kindheit; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Emotionales Verhalten; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung; Akustik
Abstract	This study examined the ability of young children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) to detect affective correspondences between facial and vocal expressions of emotion using an intermodal matching paradigm. Four-year-old children with ASD (n = 18) and their age-matched normally developing peers (n = 18) were presented pairs of videotaped facial expressions accompanied by a single soundtrack matching the affect of one of the two facial expressions. In one block of trials, the emotions were portrayed by their mothers; in another block of trials, the same emotion pairs were portrayed by an unfamiliar woman. Findings showed that ASD children were able to detect the affective correspondence between facial and vocal expressions of emotion portrayed by their mothers, but not a stranger. Furthermore, in a control condition using inanimate objects and their sounds, ASD children also showed a preference for sound-matched displays. These results suggest that children with ASD do not have a general inability to detect intermodal correspondences between visual and vocal events, however, their ability to detect affective correspondences between facial and vocal expressions of emotions may be limited to familiar displays. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10