Effects of Emotional Music on Facial Emotion Recognition in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Wagener, Gary L.; Berning, Madeleine; Costa, Andreia Pinto; Steffgen, Georges; Melzer, André

doi:10.1007/s10803-020-04781-0

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“…It has been reported that youth with ASD preferred to interact with the system more than their TD peers. Such a discovery seems to suggest that new technologybased interventions (e.g., 3D avatar-based digital twin; Wang et al, 2019), music-based therapeutic methods (Wagener et al, 2020), and computer-based recognition of posed vs. spontaneous facial expressions (Mavadati et al, 2016), have good potential in remediation of transdiagnostic processes such as FER and FEE in ASD and possibly in other disorders with facial emotion processing differences such as SZ, traumatic brain injury, and stroke. It has recently been reported in Keating and Cook (2021) that individuals with autism have difficulties recognizing neurotypical facial expressions and vice versa.…”

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Review: Posed vs. Genuine Facial Emotion Recognition and Expression in Autism and Implications for Intervention

Webster

Wang

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Different styles of social interaction are one of the core characteristics of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Social differences among individuals with ASD often include difficulty in discerning the emotions of neurotypical people based on their facial expressions. This review first covers the rich body of literature studying differences in facial emotion recognition (FER) in those with ASD, including behavioral studies and neurological findings. In particular, we highlight subtle emotion recognition and various factors related to inconsistent findings in behavioral studies of FER in ASD. Then, we discuss the dual problem of FER – namely facial emotion expression (FEE) or the production of facial expressions of emotion. Despite being less studied, social interaction involves both the ability to recognize emotions and to produce appropriate facial expressions. How others perceive facial expressions of emotion in those with ASD has remained an under-researched area. Finally, we propose a method for teaching FER [FER teaching hierarchy (FERTH)] based on recent research investigating FER in ASD, considering the use of posed vs. genuine emotions and static vs. dynamic stimuli. We also propose two possible teaching approaches: (1) a standard method of teaching progressively from simple drawings and cartoon characters to more complex audio-visual video clips of genuine human expressions of emotion with context clues or (2) teaching in a field of images that includes posed and genuine emotions to improve generalizability before progressing to more complex audio-visual stimuli. Lastly, we advocate for autism interventionists to use FER stimuli developed primarily for research purposes to facilitate the incorporation of well-controlled stimuli to teach FER and bridge the gap between intervention and research in this area.

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Section: Implications For Asd Interventionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Review: Posed vs. Genuine Facial Emotion Recognition and Expression in Autism and Implications for Intervention

Webster

Wang

2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…Each piece of music was divided into 15 s, 30 s and 45 s in length, which has been shown to better activate emotion [42]. We excluded sad music because it may worsen subjects' mood [43][44][45]. In addition, the blank stimulus (no sound) was used as a control condition.…”

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“…Considering that the gamma band may play an important role in anxiety relief, we focused on the gamma band for the power spectrum analysis. Power spectrum amplitudes were calculated and compared across six conditions (neutral music: before the anxiety intervention vs. after the anxiety intervention; happy music: before the anxiety intervention vs. the after the anxiety intervention; blank stimulus: before the anxiety intervention vs. after the anxiety intervention) in the gamma band (35)(36)(37)(38)(39)(40)(41)(42)(43)(44)(45). Then, we calculated 2 regional brain segments, including the temporal lobe (T7, T8) and occipital lobe (O1, Oz, O2).…”

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“…The superior temporal gyrus is known to be involved in auditory processing, where the characteristic response is mainly focused on the gamma band [26]. Indeed, a simple steady-state auditory click stimulation paradigm at gamma frequency (~40 Hz) has been reproducibly shown to reduce entrainment as measured by electroencephalography (EEG) in patients [27,28] and listening to music generating perceptual phenomenon was associated with different changes in gamma power (35)(36)(37)(38)(39)(40)(41)(42)(43)(44)(45) [29]. Acoustic tomography allows us to transform acoustic information into visual representations [30], and gamma is linked to the transformation of sensory signals along feedforward pathways [31].…”

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The Benefits of Music Listening for Induced State Anxiety: Behavioral and Physiological Evidence

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Background: Some clinical studies have indicated that neutral and happy music may relieve state anxiety. However, the brain mechanisms by which these effective interventions in music impact state anxiety remain unknown. Methods: In this study, we selected music with clinical effects for therapy, and 62 subjects were included using the evoked anxiety paradigm. After evoking anxiety with a visual stimulus, all subjects were randomly divided into three groups (listening to happy music, neutral music and a blank stimulus), and EEG signals were acquired. Results: We found that different emotional types of music might have different mechanisms in state anxiety interventions. Neutral music had the effect of alleviating state anxiety. The brain mechanisms supported that neutral music ameliorating state anxiety was associated with decreased power spectral density of the occipital lobe and increased brain functional connectivity between the occipital lobe and frontal lobe. Happy music also had the effect of alleviating state anxiety, and the brain mechanism was associated with enhanced brain functional connectivity between the occipital lobe and right temporal lobe. Conclusions: This study may be important for a deep understanding of the mechanisms associated with state anxiety music interventions and may further contribute to future clinical treatment using nonpharmaceutical interventions.

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“…Besides facial emotional processing, auditory emotional processing also constitutes an important part of social communication in everyday life. As sequentially presented auditory stimuli, music has been regarded as having the potential to ameliorate facial emotional processing impairments in ASD (Brown, 2017; Katagiri, 2009; Wagener et al, 2021). However, previous studies on the processing of music emotions in ASD have yielded mixed results.…”

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The autistic brain can process local but not global emotion regularities in facial and musical sequences

Zhou

Liu

et al. 2021

Autism Research

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Whether autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is associated with a global processing deficit remains controversial. Global integration requires extraction of regularity across various timescales, yet little is known about how individuals with ASD process regularity at local (short timescale) versus global (long timescale) levels. To this end, we used event‐related potentials to investigate whether individuals with ASD would show different neural responses to local (within trial) versus global (across trials) emotion regularities extracted from sequential facial expressions; and if so, whether this visual abnormality would generalize to the music (auditory) domain. Twenty individuals with ASD and 21 age‐ and IQ‐matched individuals with typical development participated in this study. At an early processing stage, ASD participants exhibited preserved neural responses to violations of local emotion regularity for both faces and music. At a later stage, however, there was an absence of neural responses in ASD to violations of global emotion regularity for both faces and music. These findings suggest that the autistic brain responses to emotion regularity are modulated by the timescale of sequential stimuli, and provide insight into the neural mechanisms underlying emotional processing in ASD.

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Effects of Emotional Music on Facial Emotion Recognition in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Cited by 14 publications

References 36 publications

Review: Posed vs. Genuine Facial Emotion Recognition and Expression in Autism and Implications for Intervention

Review: Posed vs. Genuine Facial Emotion Recognition and Expression in Autism and Implications for Intervention

The Benefits of Music Listening for Induced State Anxiety: Behavioral and Physiological Evidence

The autistic brain can process local but not global emotion regularities in facial and musical sequences

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