Specific Patterns of Emotion Recognition from Faces in Children with ASD: Results of a Cross-Modal Matching Paradigm
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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.
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Intellectually disabled children with ASD displayed poorer performance in recognizing surprise and anger in comparison to happiness and sadness.
“A study focusing on emotion recognition in intellectually disabled children with ASD found that these children displayed poorer performance in recognizing surprise and anger in comparison to happiness and sadness (Golan et al. 2018).”
From Autism Spectrum Disorder and auditory sensory alterations: a systematic review on the integrity of cognitive and neuronal functions related to auditory processing (2023) · cites this paper as Golan et al. 2018
The ability to integrate facial-voice cues seems to be correlated with socialization skills in children with ASD.
“The ability to integrate facial-voice cues seems to be correlated with socialization skills in children with ASD (Golan et al. 2018).”
From Autism Spectrum Disorder and auditory sensory alterations: a systematic review on the integrity of cognitive and neuronal functions related to auditory processing (2023) · cites this paper as Golan et al. 2018
Children with ASD struggle with face-to-face matching, compared to voice-face and word-face combinations, with worst performance in noisy environments.
“Regarding other assessment paradigms, children with ASD seem to struggle with face-to-face matching, when compared to voice-face and word-face combinations (Golan et al. 2018), with worst performance in noisy environments (Newman et al. 2021).”
From Autism Spectrum Disorder and auditory sensory alterations: a systematic review on the integrity of cognitive and neuronal functions related to auditory processing (2023) · cites this paper as Golan et al. 2018
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- Authors
- Golan, O., Gordon, I., Fichman, K., & Keinan, G.
- Affiliations
- Bar-Ilan University (IL)
- Tel Aviv University (IL)
- Corresponding author
- Golan, Ofer
- Venue
- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
- Published
- 2017-11-21
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 844-852
- ISSN
- 0162-3257 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-3432
- OpenAlex
- W2768459469
- Cited by
- 24
- References
- 12
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 6
- FWCI
- 1.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Ministry of Science, Technology and Space (10842)
- Israel Science Foundation (2096/15, 1726/15)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Keywords
- autism spectrum disorder, facial emotion recognition, emotion recognition deficits, cross-modal integration, adaptive communication, intellectual disability, social communication deficits
- MeSH terms
- Facial Recognition, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Acoustic Stimulation, Anger, Child, Emotions, Facial Expression, Female, Happiness, Humans, Intelligence, Male, Photic Stimulation, Recognition, Psychology
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