Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Luxembourg, 11, Porte des Sciences, 4366, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.
Institute of Psychology, University of Trier, Universitätsring 15, 54286, Trier, Germany.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2021 Sep;51(9):3256-3265. doi: 10.1007/s10803-020-04781-0. Epub 2020 Nov 17.
Impaired facial emotion recognition in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is in contrast to their intact emotional music recognition. This study tested whether emotion congruent music enhances facial emotion recognition. Accuracy and reaction times were assessed for 19 children with ASD and 31 controls in a recognition task with angry, happy, or sad faces. Stimuli were shown with either emotionally congruent or incongruent music or no music. Although children with ASD had higher reaction times than controls, accuracy only differed when incongruent or no music was played, indicating that congruent emotional music can boost facial emotion recognition in children with ASD. Emotion congruent music may support emotion recognition in children with ASD, and thus may improve their social skills.
自闭症谱系障碍(ASD)儿童的面部情绪识别受损,而他们的情绪音乐识别则完好无损。本研究测试了情绪一致的音乐是否能增强面部情绪识别。在一项识别任务中,19 名 ASD 儿童和 31 名对照组儿童观看了生气、高兴或悲伤的面孔,评估了他们的准确性和反应时间。刺激物与情绪一致或不一致的音乐或无音乐一起呈现。尽管 ASD 儿童的反应时间比对照组长,但只有在播放不和谐或没有音乐时,准确性才会有所不同,这表明情绪一致的音乐可以提高 ASD 儿童的面部情绪识别能力。情绪一致的音乐可以支持 ASD 儿童的情绪识别,从而提高他们的社交技能。