Impairments in facial affect recognition associated with autism spectrum disorders: A meta-analysis
Impairments in facial affect recognition associated with autism spectrum disorders: A meta-analysis
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DOI：
10.1017/s0954579414000479
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发表时间：
2014-11-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Marsh, Abigail A.
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作者：
Lozier, Leah M.;Vanmeter, John W.;Marsh, Abigail A.
自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）的特征是社会障碍，包括对情感刺激和非语言线索的不适当反应，这可能会延伸到面部情绪识别不良。然而，在ASD个体的面部情绪识别的实证研究的结果产生了不一致的结果，闭塞的理解的作用，面部情绪识别缺陷的ASD的发展。本荟萃分析的目的是解决三个尚未回答的问题。自闭症谱系障碍与持续的面部情绪识别缺陷有关吗？缺陷是普遍存在于多种情绪表达中，还是仅限于特定的情绪？年龄或认知智力是否会影响已识别缺陷的程度？研究结果表明，自闭症与多种表情的面部情绪识别缺陷有关，这些缺陷的程度随着年龄的增长而增加，不能用智力来解释。这些研究结果表明，虽然神经发育过程和社会经验在典型的发展过程中，随着时间的推移，一般的面部情绪识别能力得到改善，但ASD儿童可能会在这些过程中遇到中断，这表明神经结构中的分布式功能障碍有助于面部情绪处理，这种影响具有下游发展后果。
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are characterized by social impairments, including inappropriate responses to affective stimuli and nonverbal cues, which may extend to poor face-emotion recognition. However, the results of empirical studies of face-emotion recognition in individuals with ASD have yielded inconsistent findings that occlude understanding the role of face-emotion recognition deficits in the development of ASD. The goal of this meta-analysis was to address three as-yet unanswered questions. Are ASDs associated with consistent face-emotion recognition deficits? Do deficits generalize across multiple emotional expressions or are they limited to specific emotions? Do age or cognitive intelligence affect the magnitude of identified deficits? The results indicate that ASDs are associated with face-emotion recognition deficits across multiple expressions and that the magnitude of these deficits increases with age and cannot be accounted for by intelligence. These findings suggest that, whereas neurodevelopmental processes and social experience produce improvements in general face-emotion recognition abilities over time during typical development, children with ASD may experience disruptions in these processes, which suggested distributed functional impairment in the neural architecture that subserves face-emotion processing, an effect with downstream developmental consequences.