The Effects of Autism and Alexithymia on Physiological and Verbal Responsiveness to Music
The Effects of Autism and Alexithymia on Physiological and Verbal Responsiveness to Music
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DOI：
10.1007/s10803-012-1587-8
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发表时间：
2013-02-01
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Hill, Elisabeth
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作者：
Allen, Rory;Davis, Rob;Hill, Elisabeth
有人认为，自闭症患者对音乐中的情感内容的反应比普通人要少。为了验证这一假设，研究人员将一组自闭症谱系的高功能成年人与一组匹配的对照组进行了比较，这两组人对音乐的情绪反应性包括生理和语言测量。还评估了参与者表达情感的能力受损（II型述情障碍）。这两组在生理反应上没有显著差异，但自闭症组在口头测量上明显较低。然而，包括述情障碍评分作为中介变量无效的组间差异，这表明，差异是由于没有潜在的情感反应的音乐自闭症，但表达能力降低。
It has been suggested that individuals with autism will be less responsive to the emotional content of music than typical individuals. With the aim of testing this hypothesis, a group of high-functioning adults on the autism spectrum was compared with a group of matched controls on two measures of emotional responsiveness to music, comprising physiological and verbal measures. Impairment in participants ability to verbalize their emotions (type-II alexithymia) was also assessed. The groups did not differ significantly on physiological responsiveness, but the autism group was significantly lower on the verbal measure. However, inclusion of the alexithymia score as a mediator variable nullified this group difference, suggesting that the difference was due not to absence of underlying emotional responsiveness to music in autism, but to a reduced ability to articulate it.