Abstract
Individuals with pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) have difficulty with social communication via emotional facial expressions, but behavioral studies involving static images have reported inconsistent findings about emotion recognition. We investigated whether dynamic presentation of facial expression would enhance subjective perception of expressed emotion in 13 individuals with PDD and 13 typically developing controls. We presented dynamic and static emotional (fearful and happy) expressions. Participants were asked to match a changeable emotional face display with the last presented image. The results showed that both groups perceived the last image of dynamic facial expression to be more emotionally exaggerated than the static facial expression. This finding suggests that individuals with PDD have an intact perceptual mechanism for processing dynamic information in another individual’s face.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
References
Adolphs, R. (2002). Neural systems for recognizing emotion. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 12, 169–177.
Adolphs, R., Sears, L., & Piven, J. (2001). Abnormal processing of social information from faces in autism. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13, 232–240.
American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual for mental disorders (DSM-IV-TR). Washington, DC: APA.
Azuma, H., Ueno, K., Fujita, K., Maekawa, H., Ishikuma, T., & Sano, H. (1998). Japanese Wechsler intelligence scale for children—III. Tokyo: Nihon-Bunka-Kagaku-sha.
Bould, E., Morris, N., & Wink, B. (2008). Recognising subtle emotional expressions: The role of facial movements. Cognition and Emotion, 22, 1569–1587.
Castelli, F. (2005). Understanding emotions from standardized facial expressions in autism and normal development. Autism, 9, 428–449.
Corden, B., Chilvers, R., & Skuse, D. (2008). Avoidance of emotionally arousing stimuli predicts social-perceptual impairment in Asperger’s syndrome. Neuropsychologia, 46, 137–147.
Corona, R., Dissanayake, C., Arbelle, S., Wellington, P., & Sigman, M. (1998). Is affect aversive to young children with autism? Behavioral and cardiac responses to experimenter distress. Child Development, 69, 1494–1502.
Ekman, P., & Friesen, W. V. (1976). Pictures of facial affect. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press.
Elfenbein, H. A., & Ambady, N. (2002). On the universality and cultural specificity of emotion recognition: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 128, 203–235.
Freyd, J. J., & Finke, R. A. (1984). Representational momentum. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 10, 126–132.
Fujita, K., Maekawa, H., Dairoku, H., & Yamanaka, K. (2006). Japanese Wechsler adult intelligence scale—III. Tokyo: Nihon-Bunka-Kagaku-sha.
Gepner, B. (2004). Autism, movement, and facial processing. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 161, 1719.
Gepner, B., Deruelle, C., & Grynfeltt, S. (2001). Motion and emotion: A novel approach to the study of face processing by young autistic children. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 31, 37–45.
Hubbard, T. L. (1990). Cognitive representation of linear motion: Possible direction and gravity effects in judged displacement. Memory and Cognition, 18, 299–309.
Hubert, B., Wicker, B., Moore, D. G., Monfardini, E., Duverger, H., Da Fonseca, D., et al. (2007). Recognition of emotional and non-emotional biological motion in individual with Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37, 1386–1392.
Kelly, M. H., & Freyd, J. J. (1987). Explorations of representational momentum. Cognitive Psychology, 19, 369–401.
Kodama, H., Shinagawa, F., & Motegi, M. (1982). Japanese Wechsler intelligence scale for children—revised. Tokyo: Nihon-Bunka-Kagaku-sha.
Kourtzi, Z., & Kanwisher, N. (2000). Activation in human MT/MST by static images with implied motion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12, 48–55.
Moore, D. G., Hobson, R. P., & Lee, A. (1997). Components of person perception: An investigation with autistic, non-autistic retarded, and typically developing children and adolescents. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 15, 401–423.
Mukaida, S., Kamachi, M., Kato, T., Oda, M., Yoshikawa, S., & Akamatsu, S. (2000). Foolproof utilities for facial image manipulation [unpublished computer software]. Kyoto: ATR.
Pelphrey, K. A., Morris, J. P., & McCarthy, G. (2005). Neural basis of eye gaze processing deficits in autism. Brain, 128, 1038–1048.
Pelphrey, K. A., Morris, J. P., McCarthy, G., & Labar, K. S. (2007). Perception of dynamic changes in facial affect and identity in autism. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2, 140–149.
Sakamoto, Y., Ishiguro, M., & Kitagawa, G. (1986). Akaike information criterion statistics. Tokyo: KTK Scientific Publishers.
Sato, W., & Yoshikawa, S. (2007). Enhanced experience of emotional arousal in response to dynamic facial expressions. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 31, 119–135.
Senior, C., Barnes, J., Giampietro, V., Simmons, A., Bullmore, E. T., Brammer, M., et al. (2000). The functional neuroanatomy of implicit-motion perception or representational momentum. Current Biology, 10, 16–22.
Shinagawa, F., Kobayashi, D., Fujita, K., & Maekawa, H. (1990). Japanese Wechsler adult intelligence scale—revised. Tokyo: Nihon-Bunka-Kagaku-sha.
Tardif, C., Lainé, F., Rodriguez, M., & Gepner, B. (2007). Slowing down presentation of facial movements and vocal sounds enhances facial expression recognition and induces facial-vocal imitation in children with autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37, 1469–1484.
Yoshikawa, S., & Sato, W. (2008). Dynamic facial expressions of emotion induce representational momentum. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, 25–31.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Uono, S., Sato, W. & Toichi, M. Brief Report: Representational Momentum for Dynamic Facial Expressions in Pervasive Developmental Disorder. J Autism Dev Disord 40, 371–377 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-009-0870-9
Received:
Accepted:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-009-0870-9