Impaired Recognition of Basic Emotions from Facial Expressions in Young People with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Assessing the Importance of Expression Intensity

Sarah Griffiths; Christopher Jarrold; Ian S. Penton-Voak; Andy T. Woods; Andy L. Skinner; Marcus R. Munafò

doi:10.1007/s10803-017-3091-7

Impaired Recognition of Basic Emotions from Facial Expressions in Young People with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Assessing the Importance of Expression Intensity

Sarah Griffiths^*, Christopher Jarrold, Ian S. Penton-Voak, Andy T. Woods, Andy L. Skinner, Marcus R. Munafò

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Abstract

It has been proposed that impairments in emotion recognition in ASD are greater for more subtle expressions of emotion. We measured recognition of 6 basic facial expressions at 8 intensity levels in young people (6–16 years) with ASD (N = 63) and controls (N = 64) via an Internet platform. Participants with ASD were less accurate than controls at labelling expressions across intensity levels, although differences at very low levels were not detected due to floor effects. Recognition accuracy did not correlate with parent-reported social functioning in either group. These findings provide further evidence for an impairment in recognition of basic emotion in ASD and do not support the idea that this impairment is limited solely to low intensity expressions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2768–2778
Number of pages	11
Journal	Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Volume	49
Issue number	7
Early online date	31 Mar 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-017-3091-7
Publication status	Published - 15 Jul 2019

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Memory
Cognitive Science
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Bias
Emotion recognition
Facial expression
Intensity
Online testing
Perception

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Griffiths, S., Jarrold, C., Penton-Voak, I. S., Woods, A. T., Skinner, A. L., & Munafò, M. R. (2019). Impaired Recognition of Basic Emotions from Facial Expressions in Young People with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Assessing the Importance of Expression Intensity. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49(7), 2768–2778. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-017-3091-7

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