Abstract
Brain activity of adolescents with high functioning autism in response to emotional words and facial emoticons
Highlights
Language comprehension and facial affect recognition in patients with autism spectrum disorderAutism is a developmental disorder characterized by deficits in three domains, including social reciprocity; early language and communication problems; and restrictive, repetitive and stereotyped behaviors [1]
Particular interest in social dysfunction has been focused on the perception of emotional words and facial affect in patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) [2,3,4,5,6]
Hypothesis We hypothesized that patients with ASD would have decreased ability to recognize affect via emotional words and facial emoticons, relative to healthy comparison subjects
Summary
Language comprehension and facial affect recognition in patients with autism spectrum disorder. Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by deficits in three domains, including social reciprocity; early language and communication problems; and restrictive, repetitive and stereotyped behaviors [1]. Among these deficits, particular interest in social dysfunction has been focused on the perception of emotional words and facial affect in patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) [2,3,4,5,6]. Patients with autism were impaired in their ability to recognize appropriate facial expressions in videotaped gestures, vocalizations and contexts [10]. Patients with Asperger’s syndrome had difficulty in the comprehension and production of facial and language expressions of emotion [6]
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