Abstract
Children with ASD show emotion recognition difficulties, as part of their social communication deficits. We examined facial emotion recognition (FER) in intellectually disabled children with ASD and in younger typically developing (TD) controls, matched on mental age. Our emotion-matching paradigm employed three different modalities: facial, vocal and verbal. Results confirmed overall FER deficits in ASD. Compared to the TD group, children with ASD had the poorest performance in recognizing surprise and anger in comparison to happiness and sadness, and struggled with face–face matching, compared to voice-face and word-face combinations. Performance in the voice-face cross-modal recognition task was related to adaptive communication. These findings highlight the specific face processing deficit, and the relative merit of cross-modal integration in children with ASD.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 844-852 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders |
Volume | 48 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Mar 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
Funding
Funding Ofer Golan received funding for this study by the Israeli Ministry of Science, Technology, and Space grant (# 10842). Ilanit Gordon was funded by the Israeli Science Foundation grants (# 2096/15 #1726/15).
Funders | Funder number |
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Israeli Ministry of Science, Technology, and Space | 10842 |
Israeli Science Foundation | 2096/15 #1726/15 |
Keywords
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Cross-modal integration
- Facial emotion recognition