Impaired recognition of facial emotions from low-spatial frequencies in Asperger syndrome

Kätsyri, Jari; Saalasti, Satu; Tiippana, Kaisa; Wendt, Lennart von; Sams, Mikko

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.01.005

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“…Our results are consistent with previous studies in which authors have presented images of facial expressions taken from FACS (Allerdings, 1997;Lane et al, 1996Lane et al, , 2000McDonald & Prkachin, 1990;Mann et al, 1994;Pandey & Mandal, 1997;Parker et al, 2005;Prkachin et al, 2009;Reker et al, 2010), as well as those who have had facial micro-expressions (Swart, Kortekeer, & German, 2009), and degraded presentations of facial expressions that hinder its recognition (Kätsyri et al, 2008). On the other hand, studies using the affective priming task (Suslow, 1998;Suslow & Junghanns, 2001;Suslow et al, 2001) have showed inconsistent results.…”

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“…These deficits have been found with tasks in which participants were required to reply in a very short period of time (Pedrosa et al, 2009), as well as in those with masked stimuli to make it difficult to recognize them (Kugel et al, 2008;Reker et al, 2010), and with static emotional stimuli, such as FACS, and dynamic videos (Kätsyri, Saalasti, Tiippana, von Wendt, & Sams, 2008;Ridout, Thomas, & Wallis, 2010) (for a review, see Grynberg et al, 2012).…”

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Recognition of Emotional Facial Expressions in Alexithymia

Martínez‐Sánchez¹,

Fernández-Abascal²,

Sánchez-Pérez³

2017

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Alexithymia is a personality trait which is associated with difficulties in identifying and verbalizing emotions. Previous studies have shown a significant association between alexithymia and a lack of ability to decode emotional facial expressions. Three groups of university students (N = 1645) were formed by splitting the sample based on Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) scores. All participants performed an emotional expression recognition task, using the "Reading the Mind in the Eyes'' method. The experimenter presented images of the eye-region of the faces of actors and actresses. As expected, results showed that alexithymics performed worse on ability to infer others' emotiona l sta tes expressed by the eyes. These results suggest that alexithymia is associated with impaired emotion recognition, that is most apparent when processing capacity is restricted, high-alexithymic individuals could develop less detailed perceptual representations of facial expression which might impair the process of drawing conclusions about its emotional significance.

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Recognition of Emotional Facial Expressions in Alexithymia

Martínez‐Sánchez¹,

Fernández-Abascal²,

Sánchez-Pérez³

2017

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“…Two studies have measured perceptual discrimination of facial identity and emotion for "low" and "high" spatial frequency faces, and showed that while TD individuals rely more on low, than high, spatial frequencies, individuals with ASD exhibit the reverse pattern (Deruelle, Rondan, Gepner, & Tardif, 2004;Deruelle, Rondan, Salle-Collemiche, Bastard-Rosset, & Da Fonseca, 2008, and see Boeschoten, Kenemans, van Engeland, & Kemner, 2007b for similar and relevant results obtained from EEG studies). In line with these findings, another study showed Spatial Autism 22 that while individuals with ASD have no trouble discriminating facial emotions in unfiltered faces, they underperform TD individuals when the faces contain only low spatial frequencies (Katsyri, Saalasti, Tiippana, von Wendt, & Sams, 2008).…”

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Spatial Contrast Sensitivity in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Koh

Milne

Dobkins

2010

J Autism Dev Disord

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Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and typically developing (TD) controls underwent a rigorous psychophysical assessment that measured contrast sensitivity to seven spatial frequencies (0.5 to 20 cycles/degree). A contrast sensitivity function (CSF) was then fitted for each participant, from which four measures were obtained: visual acuity, peak spatial frequency, peak contrast sensitivity, and contrast sensitivity at a low spatial frequency. There were no group differences on any of the four CSF measures, indicating no differential spatial frequency processing in ASD.Although it has been suggested that detail-oriented visual perception in individuals with ASD may be a result of differential sensitivities to low vs. high spatial frequencies, the current study finds no evidence to support this hypothesis.

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“…To further explore this issue, and to use Bermond and colleagues' (2007) scoring procedure to determine alexithymia type, future studies should use the long (40 item) version of the BVAQ (see Berthoz et al, 2011, for a detailed description). This is of critical importance, given that alexithymia has been found to underlie several social and emotional characteristics of ASD such as reduced eye fixation (Bird et al, 2011) and impaired recognition of facial emotions (Kätsyri et al, 2008), rather than these being characteristics of ASD per se.…”

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“…This can be exemplified with alexithymia, as there is now a converging line of evidence that it may account to a great extent for the behavioural and cerebral responses to social and emotional stimuli in those with ASD. For instance, Kätsyri et al (2008) assessed the processing of emotional facial expressions (EFEs) in adults with Asperger syndrome and healthy controls by varying the perceptual quality of EFEs. Compared to controls, the group with Asperger syndrome had higher alexithymia scores and was less accurate in labelling strongly degraded EFEs.…”

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Investigating emotional impairments in adults with autism spectrum disorders and the broader autism phenotype

Berthoz

Lalanne

Crane

et al. 2013

Psychiatry Research

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There is an increasing interest in the socio-affective atypicalities observed in adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The aim of this study was to further explore emotional responsiveness in adults with ASD using well-validated self-reports of alexithymia and extend these with consideration of anhedonia, and to determine whether these features are part of a broader autism phenotype. Thirty-eight adults with ASD, 87 parents of ASD individuals and 47 typical controls completed the Autism Spectrum Quotient, the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale and the Bermond-Vorst Alexithymia Questionnaire, as well as the Chapman Physical and Social Anhedonia Scales. The ASD group differed from controls and parents on most measures, with the exception of physical and social anhedonia, relative to parents. Parents differed from controls on social anhedonia, and a higher proportion of parents were classed as alexithymic, relative to controls. Cluster analysis revealed that some parents share more similarities with ASD participants than with controls. The results suggest that socio-affective impairments are characteristic of ASD, and feature as part of the broader autism phenotype.

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Impaired recognition of facial emotions from low-spatial frequencies in Asperger syndrome

Cited by 83 publications

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Recognition of Emotional Facial Expressions in Alexithymia

Recognition of Emotional Facial Expressions in Alexithymia

Spatial Contrast Sensitivity in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Investigating emotional impairments in adults with autism spectrum disorders and the broader autism phenotype

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