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JOURNAL OF AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
Volume 45, Issue 6, Pages 1774-1784Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-014-2337-x
Keywords
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD); Dynamic facial expressions; Emotion recognition; Face perception; Response bias; Theory of mind
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- Methusalem program by Flemish Government [METH 08/02]
- Research Council of the KU Leuven [IDO/080/013]
- Marguerite Marie Delacroix Support Fund [GV/B-141]
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Emotion labelling was evaluated in two matched samples of 6-14-year old children with and without an autism spectrum disorder (ASD; N = 45 and N = 50, resp.), using six dynamic facial expressions. The Emotion Recognition Task proved to be valuable demonstrating subtle emotion recognition difficulties in ASD, as we showed a general poorer emotion recognition performance, in addition to some emotion-specific impairments in the ASD group. Participants' preference for selecting a certain emotion label, irrespective of the stimulus presented, played an important role in our results: response bias-corrected data still showed an overall decreased emotion recognition performance in ASD, but no emotion-specific impairments anymore. Moreover, ASD traits and empathy were correlated with emotion recognition performance.
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