A multimodal approach to emotion recognition ability in autism spectrum disorders
A multimodal approach to emotion recognition ability in autism spectrum disorders
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1469-7610.2010.02328.x
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发表时间：
2011-03-01
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Charman, Tony
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作者：
Jones, Catherine R. G.;Pickles, Andrew;Charman, Tony
背景：自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）的特征是日常生活中的社交和沟通困难，包括识别情绪的问题。然而，由于样本量小、智商范围窄以及对视觉形态的过度关注，对ASD患者情绪识别能力的实验研究尚不明确。方法：我们测试了99名自闭症青少年（平均年龄15岁，6岁，平均智商85）和57名非自闭症青少年（平均年龄15岁，6岁，平均智商88）的面部情绪识别任务和两个声音情绪识别任务（一个口头，一个非口头）。对快乐、悲伤、恐惧、愤怒、惊讶和厌恶的识别能力进行了测试。使用结构方程建模，我们将情感识别能力概念化为一个多模态结构，通过三个任务来测量。我们研究了不同组（ASD与非ASD）和智商（>= 80 vs < 80）对六种情绪的平均识别水平的差异。结果：我们没有发现ASD组存在基本情绪识别缺陷的证据，对错误模式的分析表明，ASD组与非ASD组一样容易出现情绪混淆模式。然而，令人惊讶的是，ASD组的识别能力明显受损。智商对所有六种情绪的识别都有强烈而显著的影响，高智商青少年的表现优于低智商青少年。结论：研究结果并不表明自闭症青少年在识别基本情绪方面存在根本困难。
Background:Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are characterised by social and communication difficulties in day-to-day life, including problems in recognising emotions. However, experimental investigations of emotion recognition ability in ASD have been equivocal, hampered by small sample sizes, narrow IQ range and over-focus on the visual modality.Methods:We tested 99 adolescents (mean age 15;6 years, mean IQ 85) with an ASD and 57 adolescents without an ASD (mean age 15;6 years, mean IQ 88) on a facial emotion recognition task and two vocal emotion recognition tasks (one verbal; one non-verbal). Recognition of happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise and disgust were tested. Using structural equation modelling, we conceptualised emotion recognition ability as a multimodal construct, measured by the three tasks. We examined how the mean levels of recognition of the six emotions differed by group (ASD vs. non-ASD) and IQ (>= 80 vs. < 80).Results:We found no evidence of a fundamental emotion recognition deficit in the ASD group and analysis of error patterns suggested that the ASD group were vulnerable to the same pattern of confusions between emotions as the non-ASD group. However, recognition ability was significantly impaired in the ASD group for surprise. IQ had a strong and significant effect on performance for the recognition of all six emotions, with higher IQ adolescents outperforming lower IQ adolescents.Conclusions:The findings do not suggest a fundamental difficulty with the recognition of basic emotions in adolescents with ASD.