Zhang Minyue, Xu Suyun, Chen Yu, Lin Yi, Ding Hongwei, Zhang Yang
Speech-Language-Hearing Center, School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences and Center for Neurobehavioral Development, The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN, USA.
Autism. 2022 May;26(4):798-813. doi: 10.1177/1362361321995725. Epub 2021 Mar 15.
Differences in understanding others' emotions and attitudes through features in speech (e.g. intonation) have been observed in individuals with autism spectrum conditions, which contribute greatly to their social communication challenges. However, some studies reported that individuals with autism spectrum condition performed comparably to typically developing individuals on affective prosody recognition. Here, we provide a comprehensive review with statistical analysis of 23 existing studies on this topic to examine potential factors that could explain the discrepancies. Compared with typically developing individuals, autism spectrum condition participants generally appeared to encounter more difficulties in affective prosody recognition. But this finding was likely due to the tendency of the existing research to overly focus on deficits in autism. The affective prosody recognition performance in individuals with autism spectrum condition was closely related to the number of answer options offered to them. Moreover, the degree of difficulty in affective prosody recognition encountered by individuals with autism spectrum condition varied across emotions. The findings of this systematic review highlighted the need for further research on affective prosody recognition in autism (e.g. studies that include tonal language speakers and autism spectrum condition individuals with lower cognitive or verbal abilities).
通过语音特征（如语调）来理解他人情绪和态度方面的差异，已在自闭症谱系障碍个体中被观察到，这极大地导致了他们在社交沟通方面的挑战。然而，一些研究报告称，自闭症谱系障碍个体在情感韵律识别方面的表现与发育正常的个体相当。在此，我们对关于该主题的23项现有研究进行了全面综述并进行统计分析，以探究可能解释这些差异的潜在因素。与发育正常的个体相比，自闭症谱系障碍参与者在情感韵律识别方面通常似乎遇到更多困难。但这一发现可能是由于现有研究倾向于过度关注自闭症患者的缺陷。自闭症谱系障碍个体的情感韵律识别表现与提供给他们的答案选项数量密切相关。此外，自闭症谱系障碍个体在情感韵律识别中遇到的困难程度因情绪而异。这一系统综述的结果凸显了对自闭症患者情感韵律识别进行进一步研究的必要性（例如，纳入说声调语言的人群以及认知或语言能力较低的自闭症谱系障碍个体的研究）。
