Stephenson K G, Quintin E M, South M
Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University, 245 TLRB, Provo, UT, 84602, USA.
Educational and Counselling Psychology Department, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2016 Apr;46(4):1142-51. doi: 10.1007/s10803-015-2624-1.
While research regarding emotion recognition in ASD has focused primarily on social cues, musical stimuli also elicit strong emotional responses. This study extends and expands the few previous studies of response to music in ASD, measuring both psychophysiological and behavioral responses in younger children (ages 8-11) as well as older adolescents (ages 16-18). Compared to controls, the ASD group demonstrated reduced skin conductance response to music-evoked emotion. Younger groups, regardless of diagnosis, showed greater physiological reactivity to scary stimuli than to other emotions. There was a significant interaction of age group and diagnostic group in identifying scary music stimuli, possibly evidencing disrupted developmental trajectories in ASD for integrating physiological and cognitive cues that may underlie symptoms of anxiety.
虽然关于自闭症谱系障碍(ASD)中情绪识别的研究主要集中在社交线索上,但音乐刺激也会引发强烈的情绪反应。本研究扩展并深化了此前为数不多的关于ASD患者对音乐反应的研究,测量了年幼儿童(8至11岁)和青少年(16至18岁)的心理生理反应和行为反应。与对照组相比,ASD组对音乐诱发情绪的皮肤电导反应降低。无论诊断结果如何,较年轻的群体对恐怖刺激的生理反应比对其他情绪的反应更大。在识别恐怖音乐刺激方面,年龄组和诊断组之间存在显著的交互作用,这可能表明ASD患者在整合生理和认知线索方面的发育轨迹受到干扰,而这些线索可能是焦虑症状的基础。