Perception of Emotions from Facial Expressions in High-Functioning Adults with Autism

Autor/inn/en	Kennedy, Daniel P.; Adolphs, Ralph
Titel	Perception of Emotions from Facial Expressions in High-Functioning Adults with Autism
Quelle	In: Neuropsychologia, 50 (2012) 14, S.3313-3319 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0028-3932
DOI	10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.09.038
Schlagwörter	Adults; Perception; Social Cognition; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Autism; Nonverbal Communication; Psychological Patterns; Perceptual Impairments + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wahrnehmung; Soziale Kognition; Autismus; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Perceptual handicaps; Wahrnehmungsstörung
Abstract	Impairment in social communication is one of the diagnostic hallmarks of autism spectrum disorders, and a large body of research has documented aspects of impaired social cognition in autism, both at the level of the processes and the neural structures involved. Yet one of the most common social communicative abilities in everyday life, the ability to judge somebody's emotion from their facial expression, has yielded conflicting findings. To investigate this issue, we used a sensitive task that has been used to assess facial emotion perception in a number of neurological and psychiatric populations. Fifteen high-functioning adults with autism and 19 control participants rated the emotional intensity of 36 faces displaying basic emotions. Every face was rated 6 times--once for each emotion category. The autism group gave ratings that were significantly less sensitive to a given emotion, and less reliable across repeated testing, resulting in overall decreased specificity in emotion perception. We thus demonstrate a subtle but specific pattern of impairments in facial emotion perception in people with autism. (Contains 1 table and 5 figures.) (As Provided).
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