The perception of emotional facial expressions by children with autism using hybrid multiple factorial design and eye-tracking

Wang, Qianqian; Chen, Jingying; Zhang, Kun

doi:10.1360/n972018-00553

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“…Thus, our findings suggest that in the present study, participants’ affective and cognitive empathy was successfully elicited by the stimuli. In addition, consistent with previous findings that more positive emotional reactions are evoked by more attractive faces than they are by less attractive faces ( Shang et al, 2018 ; Wang et al, 2018 ), our findings confirmed that emotional reactions were significantly modulated by the main effect of “attractiveness.”…”

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Skin Color and Attractiveness Modulate Empathy for Pain: An Event-Related Potential Study

Yang

Li²,

Zhang³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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Although racial in-group bias in empathy for pain has been reported, empathic responses to others’ pain may be influenced by other characteristics besides race. To explore whether skin color and attractiveness modulate empathy for pain, we recorded 24 participants’ reactions to painful faces from racial in-group members with different skin color (fair, wheatish, or dark) and attractiveness (more or less attractive) using event-related potentials (ERPs). Results showed that, for more attractive painful faces, dark skin faces were judged as less painful and elicited smaller N2 amplitudes than fair- and wheatish-skinned faces. However, for less attractive faces, there were no significant differences among the three skin colors. Our findings suggest that empathy for pain toward racial in-group members may be influenced by skin color and attractiveness.

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confidence: 92%

Skin Color and Attractiveness Modulate Empathy for Pain: An Event-Related Potential Study

Yang

Li²,

Zhang³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…Impairment in emotional face recognition in children with ASD is considered to be an important cause of social deficits (Wang et al, 2018). Our path analysis showed that sleep problems contributed to the ASD core symptoms, with atypical gaze patterns playing a mediating role.…”

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The mediating role of gaze patterns in the association of child sleep disturbances and core symptoms of autism spectrum disorder

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Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are at high risk for sleep disturbances, but the mechanism underlying the association between sleep disturbances and ASD core symptoms is largely unknown. This study examined the relationship between sleep disturbances and ASD core symptoms, and the mediating role of gaze patterns during the facial emotion recognition (FER) task. The study included 57 children with ASD and 59 age‐ and intelligence‐matched typically developing (TD) controls aged 3–7 years. Parents reported their children's sleep disturbances and ASD core symptoms using the Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ) and Social Communication Questionnaire (SCQ). Children's gaze patterns during the FER task were recorded by an eye tracking method. We found (1) ASD children had more severe sleep disturbances than TD children; (2) ASD children had atypical gaze patterns and poor FER task performance as determined by lower accuracy and longer reaction time; (3) sleep disturbances were significantly associated with ASD core symptoms of social interaction, communication, and restricted, repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior; and (4) atypical gaze patterns partially mediated the association between sleep disturbances and ASD core symptoms. These findings suggest the need for more comprehensive clinical interventions and more effective sleep interventions to improve ASD core symptoms. Lay Summary Sleep disturbances are very common in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The current study found that sleep disturbances were significantly associated with ASD core symptoms, and gaze patterns during facial emotion recognition task could partially mediate this relationship.

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“…It also demonstrates that a child's pupil response can be used to distinguish between ASD and TD children. Similarly, Wang et al (2018) found that ASD children have abnormal face processing and eye-tracking skills and that analyzing these features may aid in understanding social communication disorders in ASD children, as well as provide behavioral indicators for early ASD identification. Overall, these research studies suggest that data on a child's eye fixation, facial expression, and cognitive level can be useful for distinguishing between ASD and TD children.…”

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An intelligent multimodal framework for identifying children with autism spectrum disorder

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Liao²,

Wang³

et al. 2020

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Early identification can significantly improve the prognosis of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Yet existing identification methods are costly, time consuming, and dependent on the manual judgment of specialists. In this study, we present a multimodal framework that fuses data on a child's eye fixation, facial expression, and cognitive level to automatically identify children with ASD, to improve the identification efficiency and reduce costs. The proposed methodology uses an optimized random forest (RF) algorithm to improve classification accuracy and then applies a hybrid fusion method based on the data source and time synchronization to ensure the reliability of the classification results. The classification accuracy of the framework was 91%, which is higher than that of the RF, support vector machine, and discriminant analysis methods. The results suggest that data on a child's eye fixation, facial expression, and cognitive level are useful for identifying children with ASD. Because the proposed framework can separate ASD children from typically developing (TD) children, it can facilitate the early identification of ASD and may improve intervention programs for children with ASD.

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The perception of emotional facial expressions by children with autism using hybrid multiple factorial design and eye-tracking

Cited by 4 publications

References 20 publications

Skin Color and Attractiveness Modulate Empathy for Pain: An Event-Related Potential Study

Skin Color and Attractiveness Modulate Empathy for Pain: An Event-Related Potential Study

The mediating role of gaze patterns in the association of child sleep disturbances and core symptoms of autism spectrum disorder

An intelligent multimodal framework for identifying children with autism spectrum disorder

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