Recognition of Facial Expressions and Prosodic Cues with Graded Emotional Intensities in Adults with Asperger Syndrome

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作者
Doi, Hirokazu [1 ]
Fujisawa, Takashi X. [1 ]
Kanai, Chieko [2 ]
Ohta, Haruhisa [2 ]
Yokoi, Hideki [2 ]
Iwanami, Akira [2 ]
Kato, Nobumasa [2 ]
Shinohara, Kazuyuki [1 ]
机构
[1] Nagasaki Univ, Grad Sch Biomed Sci, Nagasaki 8528523, Japan
[2] Showa Univ, Sch Med, Dept Psychiat, Tokyo 142, Japan
关键词
Facial expression; Prosody; Inversion effect; Configural processing; Asperger syndrome; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS; HIGH-FUNCTIONING AUTISM; EXPERT OBJECT RECOGNITION; FACE-PROCESSING DEFICIT; SEX-DIFFERENCES; PERCEPTION; CHILDREN; ADOLESCENTS; INDIVIDUALS; INFORMATION;
D O I
10.1007/s10803-013-1760-8
中图分类号
B844 [发展心理学(人类心理学)];
学科分类号
040202 ;
摘要
This study investigated the ability of adults with Asperger syndrome to recognize emotional categories of facial expressions and emotional prosodies with graded emotional intensities. The individuals with Asperger syndrome showed poorer recognition performance for angry and sad expressions from both facial and vocal information. The group difference in facial expression recognition was prominent for stimuli with low or intermediate emotional intensities. In contrast to this, the individuals with Asperger syndrome exhibited lower recognition accuracy than typically-developed controls mainly for emotional prosody with high emotional intensity. In facial expression recognition, Asperger and control groups showed an inversion effect for all categories. The magnitude of this effect was less in the Asperger group for angry and sad expressions, presumably attributable to reduced recruitment of the configural mode of face processing. The individuals with Asperger syndrome outperformed the control participants in recognizing inverted sad expressions, indicating enhanced processing of local facial information representing sad emotion. These results suggest that the adults with Asperger syndrome rely on modality-specific strategies in emotion recognition from facial expression and prosodic information.
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页码:2099 / 2113
页数:15
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