Steven Stagg, Li-Huan Tan and Fathima Kodakkadan 2022. Emotion Recognition and Context in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 52, pp. 4129-4137. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-05292-2
| Title | Emotion Recognition and Context in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder |
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| Type | Journal article |
| Authors | Steven Stagg, Li-Huan Tan and Fathima Kodakkadan |
| Abstract | Emotion recognition research in autism has provided conflicting results and has ignored the role of context. We examined if autistic adolescents use context to identify displayed and felt emotion. Twenty adolescents with autism and 20 age-matched neurotypical adolescents identified emotions from a standardised set of images. The groups also viewed videos scenes with actors displaying a feigned emotion masking their true feelings. Participants identified the displayed and felt emotions. Both groups identified emotions from static images equally well. In the video condition, the autism group was unable to distinguish between the displayed and felt emotions. Emotion research is often divorced from context. Our findings suggest that autistic individuals have difficulty integrating contextual cues when processing emotions. |
| Journal | Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders |
| Journal citation | 52, pp. 4129-4137 |
| ISSN | 1573-3432 |
| 0162-3257 | |
| Year | 2022 |
| Publisher | Springer Nature |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-05292-2 |
| Web address (URL) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-05292-2 |
| Publication dates | |
| Published | Sep 2022 |