Understanding emotions from standardized facial expressions in autism and normal development
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The study investigated the recognition of standardized facial expressions of emotion (anger, fear, disgust, happiness, sadness, surprise) at a perceptual level (experiment 1) and at a semantic level (experiments 2 and 3) in children with autism ( N= 20) and normally developing children ( N= 20). Results revealed that children with autism were as able as controls to recognize all six emotions with different intensity levels, and that they made the same type of errors. These negative findings are discussed in relation to (1) previous data showing specific impairment in autism in recognizing the belief-based expression of surprise, (2) previous data showing specific impairment in autism in recognizing fear, and (3) the convergence of findings that individuals with autism, like patients with amygdala damage, pass a basic emotions recognition test but fail to recognize more complex stimuli involving the perception of faces or part of faces.
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High-functioning individuals with ASD sometimes perform as well as control participants on simplified social cognitive tasks similar to those used in the extant imaging literature.
“For example, while theories suggest that social cognitive deficits underlie difficulties in social interaction experienced by people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), high-functioning individuals with ASD sometimes perform as well as control participants on simplified social cognitive tasks similar to those used in the extant imaging literature (36).”
From The neural bases of empathic accuracy (2009) · cites this paper as [36]
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- Authors
- Castelli, F.
- Affiliations
- California Institute of Technology (US)
- Corresponding author
- Castelli, Fulvia
- Venue
- Autism
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2005-10
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 428-449
- ISSN
- 1362-3613 (ISSN-L)
- 1461-7005
- OpenAlex
- W2145028577
- Cited by
- 317
- References
- 40
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- FWCI
- 4.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Autism (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- 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
- emotion recognition, facial expressions, emotion perception, facial expression intensity, surprise, fear, amygdala damage, children, face perception
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Amygdala, Autistic Disorder, Child, Child Development, Emotions, Facial Expression, Fear, Female, Humans, Male, Semantics, Case-Control Studies, Recognition, Psychology
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