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Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 9/2011

01-09-2011 | Original Paper

Emotion Perception in Music in High-Functioning Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorders

Auteurs: Eve-Marie Quintin, Anjali Bhatara, Hélène Poissant, Eric Fombonne, Daniel J. Levitin

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 9/2011

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Abstract

Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) succeed at a range of musical tasks. The ability to recognize musical emotion as belonging to one of four categories (happy, sad, scared or peaceful) was assessed in high-functioning adolescents with ASD (N = 26) and adolescents with typical development (TD, N = 26) with comparable performance IQ, auditory working memory, and musical training and experience. When verbal IQ was controlled for, there was no significant effect of diagnostic group. Adolescents with ASD rated the intensity of the emotions similarly to adolescents with TD and reported greater confidence in their responses when they had correctly (vs. incorrectly) recognized the emotions. These findings are reviewed within the context of the amygdala theory of autism.
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Here, “intended emotion” does not mean to imply that this was necessarily the emotion intended by the composer; rather, it is the emotion most often identified by participants in validation studies, and thus, is the emotion that the experimenters “intended” the participant to recognize., i.e. select in the recognition task.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
Emotion Perception in Music in High-Functioning Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorders
Auteurs
Eve-Marie Quintin
Anjali Bhatara
Hélène Poissant
Eric Fombonne
Daniel J. Levitin
Publicatiedatum
01-09-2011
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 9/2011
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-010-1146-0

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