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Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

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28-02-2018 | Original Paper

Effects of Prosodic and Semantic Cues on Facial Emotion Recognition in Relation to Autism-Like Traits

Auteurs: Melina J. West, David A. Copland, Wendy L. Arnott, Nicole L. Nelson, Anthony J. Angwin

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 8/2018

Abstract

The current study investigated whether those with higher levels of autism-like traits process emotional information from speech differently to those with lower levels of autism-like traits. Neurotypical adults completed the autism-spectrum quotient and an emotional priming task. Vocal primes with varied emotional prosody, semantics, or a combination, preceded emotional target faces. Prime-target pairs were congruent or incongruent in their emotional content. Overall, congruency effects were found for combined prosody-semantic primes, however no congruency effects were found for semantic or prosodic primes alone. Further, those with higher levels of autism-like traits were not influenced by the prime stimuli. These results suggest that failure to integrate emotional information across modalities may be characteristic of the broader autism phenotype.

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Titel: Effects of Prosodic and Semantic Cues on Facial Emotion Recognition in Relation to Autism-Like Traits
Auteurs: Melina J. West
David A. Copland
Wendy L. Arnott
Nicole L. Nelson
Anthony J. Angwin
Publicatiedatum: 28-02-2018
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 8/2018
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-018-3522-0

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