Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada; Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong.
Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2022 Feb;133:104518. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.104518. Epub 2021 Dec 31.
This review assessed the specificity of facial emotion recognition impairment and the role of task characteristics in facial emotion recognition in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Based on subsets of 148 studies identified in PubMed and PsycINFO, random-effects meta-analyses showed significant impairment in recognizing all basic facial emotions in ASD. Additionally, ASD involves poorer facial emotion recognition than other clinical conditions and has similar impairment in recognizing emotional and nonemotional facial attributes, as well as in recognizing emotion in faces and other modalities. Furthermore, there are significant moderating effects for emotion complexity and holistic processing, a statistical trend for task type, and no significant effect for motion, social relevance, or stimulus salience on facial emotion recognition in ASD. Altogether, this review suggests nonselective facial emotion recognition impairment in ASD. Such impairment is relatively specific to ASD but is not specific to the recognition of emotional facial attributes or emotion recognition in the face modality. Identifying the role of task characteristics improves our understanding of the mechanisms underlying facial emotion recognition in ASD.
本综述评估了自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）中面部情绪识别障碍的特异性以及任务特征的作用。基于在 PubMed 和 PsycINFO 中确定的 148 项研究的子集，随机效应荟萃分析显示，ASD 患者在识别所有基本面部情绪方面存在明显障碍。此外，ASD 患者的面部情绪识别能力比其他临床状况差，并且在识别情绪和非情绪面部属性、识别面部和其他模式中的情绪方面也存在类似的障碍。此外，情绪复杂性和整体加工、任务类型的统计趋势以及运动、社会相关性或刺激显著性对面部情绪识别在 ASD 中的影响均有显著的调节作用。总的来说，本综述表明 ASD 存在非选择性的面部情绪识别障碍。这种障碍相对特异于 ASD，但对面部属性或面部模式中的情绪识别并不特异。确定任务特征的作用有助于我们理解 ASD 中面部情绪识别的机制。
