Can Neurotypical Individuals Read Autistic Facial Expressions? Atypical Production of Emotional Facial Expressions in Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Can Neurotypical Individuals Read Autistic Facial Expressions? Atypical Production of Emotional Facial Expressions in Autism Spectrum Disorders.
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10.1002/aur.1508
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2016-02
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Brewer R;Biotti F;Catmur C;Press C;Happé F;Cook R;Bird G
自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）患者在与神经型（NT，即非自闭症）个体互动时遇到的困难通常归因于未能识别其NT互动伙伴的情绪和精神状态。然而，也有可能，至少有一些困难是由于NT个体未能阅读ASD互动伙伴的精神和情绪状态。之前的研究经常观察到自闭症谱系障碍患者典型面部情绪识别的缺陷，这表明情绪表达的非典型表现。然而，相对较少的研究，已经调查了自闭症患者产生可识别的情感表达的能力，因此，NT个体是否可以识别自闭症的情感表达。少数几项研究仅使用NT观察员，因此无法确定ASD个体之间是否共享非典型表征或特异性表征。本研究调查了NT和ASD参与者识别NT和ASD装腔作势者情绪表达的能力。三个构成的条件，以确定是否潜在的群体差异是由于非典型的情感认知表征，表达的沟通价值的理解受损，或本体感受反馈差。结果表明，ASD的表达识别不如NT的表达，这可能是由于在这个人口中的典型的情感表达的代表性的真正赤字。此外，自闭症谱系障碍的表达在NT个体和自闭症谱系障碍患者中的识别率同样很低，这表明自闭症谱系障碍的情感表达是独特的，而不是常见的、非典型的表现。Autism Res 2016，9：262 - 271.© 2015年国际自闭症研究学会，威利期刊，公司。
The difficulties encountered by individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) when interacting with neurotypical (NT, i.e. nonautistic) individuals are usually attributed to failure to recognize the emotions and mental states of their NT interaction partner. It is also possible, however, that at least some of the difficulty is due to a failure of NT individuals to read the mental and emotional states of ASD interaction partners. Previous research has frequently observed deficits of typical facial emotion recognition in individuals with ASD, suggesting atypical representations of emotional expressions. Relatively little research, however, has investigated the ability of individuals with ASD to produce recognizable emotional expressions, and thus, whether NT individuals can recognize autistic emotional expressions. The few studies which have investigated this have used only NT observers, making it impossible to determine whether atypical representations are shared among individuals with ASD, or idiosyncratic. This study investigated NT and ASD participants’ ability to recognize emotional expressions produced by NT and ASD posers. Three posing conditions were included, to determine whether potential group differences are due to atypical cognitive representations of emotion, impaired understanding of the communicative value of expressions, or poor proprioceptive feedback. Results indicated that ASD expressions were recognized less well than NT expressions, and that this is likely due to a genuine deficit in the representation of typical emotional expressions in this population. Further, ASD expressions were equally poorly recognized by NT individuals and those with ASD, implicating idiosyncratic, rather than common, atypical representations of emotional expressions in ASD. Autism Res 2016, 9: 262–271. © 2015 International Society for Autism Research, Wiley Periodicals, Inc.