Facial expression recognition in Williams syndrome

Gagliardi, Chiara; Frigerio, E.; Burt, D. M.; Cazzaniga, Ilaria; Perrett, David I.; Borgatti, Renato

doi:10.1016/s0028-3932(02)00178-1

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“…These results confirm earlier studies suggesting that people with WMS are not spared in the ability to match, recognise, or name basic emotional expressions in faces (Gagliardi et al, 2003;Tager-Flusberg & Sullivan, 2000), even though we made every effort in this experiment to employ the most naturalistic dynamic stimuli, which provided multiple cues to emotions. At the same time it should be noted that about half the participants in both clinical groups performed in the same range as the normal controls.…”

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“…However, both groups performed significantly worse, overall, than agematched normal controls, suggesting that both people with WMS and people with LID show relative impairments in the ability to decode mental state information from faces. These findings support earlier research on this topic (e.g., Gagliardi et al, 2003;Tager-Flusberg & Sullivan, 2000); however, this study included larger groups of participants and a comparison group of learning and intellectually disabled adolescents and adults that was matched on age, IQ, and language ability to the group with WMS. This more rigorous methodological approach provides strong support for the conclusion that people with WMS are no different from other individuals with disabilities in social perceptual skills involved in processing facial cues to mental states and emotions.…”

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“…They found that participants with WMS rated faces as more approachable and more trustworthy than did control groups, which is consistent with anecdotal reports about the indiscriminant trust and friendliness of people with WMS toward strangers. Furthermore, in contrast to the findings reported by Tager-Flusberg et al (1998), several studies found that children and adults with WMS were no better than matched controls in labelling or discriminating basic emotions expressed in faces (Gagliardi, Frigerio, Burt, Cazzaniga, Perrett, & Borgatti, 2003;TagerFlusberg & Sullivan, 2000), despite their relative strength in recognising facial identity as measured on standardised tests such as the Benton Test of Facial Recognition (Bellugi et al, 1988;Bellugi, Wang, & Jernigan, 1994;Tager-Flusberg, Plesa Skwerer, Faja, & Joseph, 2003;Wang, Doherty, Rourke, & Bellugi, 1995).…”

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Social-perceptual abilities in adolescents and adults with Williams syndrome

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Schofield

et al. 2006

Cognitive Neuropsychology

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People with Williams syndrome (WMS) have a unique social phenotype characterised by unusually strong interest in other people and an engaging and empathic personality. Two experiments were designed to test whether this phenotype is associated with relatively spared abilities to decode mental-state information from nonverbal cues. The first experiment involved a modified version of the revised Eyes Test. The second experiment probed the ability to label emotions from brief dynamic facial displays. Adolescents and adults with WMS were compared to age-, IQ-, and language-matched participants with learning/intellectual disabilities, and age-matched normal controls. In both experiments the WMS group performed at a significantly lower level than the normal controls, and no different from the well-matched comparison-group with intellectual disabilities. These findings, contradicting earlier reports in the literature, argue against the view that in WMS social-perceptual abilities are relatively spared and can explain the social profile associated with this neurodevelopmental disorder.

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Social-perceptual abilities in adolescents and adults with Williams syndrome

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“…In this sample emotion recognition errors were specifically evident on the disgusted, Gagliardi et al (2003) who also used the Ekman and Friesen emotion recognition task with WS participants. These data suggest that while the ability to perceive more basic expressions of emotion is relatively good in individuals with WS, difficulties can occur identifying more complex or subtle emotions.…”

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Heterogeneity of social approach behaviour in Williams syndrome: The role of response inhibition

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Riby

Janes

et al. 2013

Research in Developmental Disabilities

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Publisher's copyright statement: NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Research in Developmental Disabilities. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be re ected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A de nitive version was subsequently published in Research in Developmental Disabilities, 34, 3, March 2013, 10.1016/j.ridd.2012.11.020. Additional information:Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details.

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“…In labeling, identification and matching tasks, both with static and dynamic stimuli, it is generally reported that individuals with WS perform more poorly than typically developing (TD) peers matched on chronological age (CA) but at the same level as TD children and individuals with developmental disabilities of similar mental age (MA) (Gagliardi et al, 2003;Lacroix, Guidetti, Rogé, & Reilly, 2009;Porter et al, 2007;Porter, Shaw, & Marsh, 2010).…”

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Facial emotion recognition in Williams syndrome and Down syndrome: A matching and developmental study

Martínez‐Castilla

Burt

Borgatti

et al. 2014

Child Neuropsychology

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Citation for published item:wrt¡ %nezEgstillD F nd furtD wF nd forgttiD F nd qglirdiD gF @PHISA 9pil emotion reognition in illims syndrome nd hown syndrome X mthing nd developmentl studyF9D ghild neuropsyhologyFD PI @SAF ppF TTVETWPF Further information on publisher's website: Additional information:Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. In this study both the matching and developmental trajectories approaches were used to clarify the development of facial expression recognition in Williams syndrome (WS) and Down syndrome (DS). The matching approach showed that neither individuals with WS nor DS exhibit a specific proficiency for the expression of happiness or a specific impairments for negative emotions but presented the same pattern of emotion recognition as typically developing (TD) individuals. Thus, the better performance on the recognition of positive compared to negative emotions often reported in WS and DS is not specific to these populations but represents a typical pattern. Prior studies based on the matching approach suggested that the development of facial expression recognition is delayed in WS and atypical in DS. Nevertheless, and even though performance levels were lower in DS than in WS, the developmental trajectories approach used in this study found that not only individuals with DS but also those with WS present atypical developmental trajectories. Unlike in the TD participants where developmental changes were observed along with age, in the WS and DS development was static. Thus, both individuals with WS and those with DS reach early maximum levels of facial expression recognition due to cognitive constraints.

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Facial expression recognition in Williams syndrome

Cited by 129 publications

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Social-perceptual abilities in adolescents and adults with Williams syndrome

Social-perceptual abilities in adolescents and adults with Williams syndrome

Heterogeneity of social approach behaviour in Williams syndrome: The role of response inhibition

Facial emotion recognition in Williams syndrome and Down syndrome: A matching and developmental study

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