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Impaired Recognition of Static and Dynamic Facial Emotions in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Stimuli of Varying Intensities, Different Genders, and Age Ranges Faces

A multitude of research on facial emotion recognition (FER) in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) have been published since several years. However, these studies have mainly used static high intensity stimuli, including adult and/or children facial emotions. This current study investigated FER in child...

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Autores principales: Jelili, Selima, Halayem, Soumeyya, Taamallah, Amal, Ennaifer, Selima, Rajhi, Olfa, Moussa, Mohamed, Ghazzei, Melek, Nabli, Ahmed, Ouanes, Sami, Abbes, Zeineb, Hajri, Malek, Fakhfakh, Radhouane, Bouden, Asma
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8417587/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34489754
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.693310
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author Jelili, Selima
Halayem, Soumeyya
Taamallah, Amal
Ennaifer, Selima
Rajhi, Olfa
Moussa, Mohamed
Ghazzei, Melek
Nabli, Ahmed
Ouanes, Sami
Abbes, Zeineb
Hajri, Malek
Fakhfakh, Radhouane
Bouden, Asma
author_facet Jelili, Selima
Halayem, Soumeyya
Taamallah, Amal
Ennaifer, Selima
Rajhi, Olfa
Moussa, Mohamed
Ghazzei, Melek
Nabli, Ahmed
Ouanes, Sami
Abbes, Zeineb
Hajri, Malek
Fakhfakh, Radhouane
Bouden, Asma
author_sort Jelili, Selima
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description A multitude of research on facial emotion recognition (FER) in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) have been published since several years. However, these studies have mainly used static high intensity stimuli, including adult and/or children facial emotions. This current study investigated FER in children with ASD using an innovative task, composed of a combination of static (114 pictures) and dynamic (36 videos) subtests, including children, adolescent, and adult male and female faces, with high, medium, and low intensity of basic facial emotions, and neutral expression. The ASD group consisted of 45 Tunisian verbal children, and the control group consisted of 117 tunisian typically developing children. Both groups were aged 7–12 years. After adjusting for sex, age, mental age, and school grade, the ASD group scored lower than controls on all tests except for the recognition of happiness and fear in the static subtest, and the recognition of happiness, fear, and sadness in the dynamic subtest (p ≥ 0.05). In the ASD group, the total score of both the static and the dynamic subtest were positively correlated with the school grade (p < 0.001), but not with age, or mental age. Children with ASD performed better in recognizing facial emotions in children than in adults and adolescents on videos and photos (p < 0.001). Impairments in FER would have negative impact on the child's social development. Thus, the creation of new intervention instruments aiming to improve emotion recognition strategies at an early stage to individuals with ASD seems fundamental.
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spelling pubmed-84175872021-09-05 Impaired Recognition of Static and Dynamic Facial Emotions in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Stimuli of Varying Intensities, Different Genders, and Age Ranges Faces Jelili, Selima Halayem, Soumeyya Taamallah, Amal Ennaifer, Selima Rajhi, Olfa Moussa, Mohamed Ghazzei, Melek Nabli, Ahmed Ouanes, Sami Abbes, Zeineb Hajri, Malek Fakhfakh, Radhouane Bouden, Asma Front Psychiatry Psychiatry A multitude of research on facial emotion recognition (FER) in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) have been published since several years. However, these studies have mainly used static high intensity stimuli, including adult and/or children facial emotions. This current study investigated FER in children with ASD using an innovative task, composed of a combination of static (114 pictures) and dynamic (36 videos) subtests, including children, adolescent, and adult male and female faces, with high, medium, and low intensity of basic facial emotions, and neutral expression. The ASD group consisted of 45 Tunisian verbal children, and the control group consisted of 117 tunisian typically developing children. Both groups were aged 7–12 years. After adjusting for sex, age, mental age, and school grade, the ASD group scored lower than controls on all tests except for the recognition of happiness and fear in the static subtest, and the recognition of happiness, fear, and sadness in the dynamic subtest (p ≥ 0.05). In the ASD group, the total score of both the static and the dynamic subtest were positively correlated with the school grade (p < 0.001), but not with age, or mental age. Children with ASD performed better in recognizing facial emotions in children than in adults and adolescents on videos and photos (p < 0.001). Impairments in FER would have negative impact on the child's social development. Thus, the creation of new intervention instruments aiming to improve emotion recognition strategies at an early stage to individuals with ASD seems fundamental. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-08-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8417587/ /pubmed/34489754 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.693310 Text en Copyright © 2021 Jelili, Halayem, Taamallah, Ennaifer, Rajhi, Moussa, Ghazzei, Nabli, Ouanes, Abbes, Hajri, Fakhfakh and Bouden. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Psychiatry
Jelili, Selima
Halayem, Soumeyya
Taamallah, Amal
Ennaifer, Selima
Rajhi, Olfa
Moussa, Mohamed
Ghazzei, Melek
Nabli, Ahmed
Ouanes, Sami
Abbes, Zeineb
Hajri, Malek
Fakhfakh, Radhouane
Bouden, Asma
Impaired Recognition of Static and Dynamic Facial Emotions in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Stimuli of Varying Intensities, Different Genders, and Age Ranges Faces
title Impaired Recognition of Static and Dynamic Facial Emotions in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Stimuli of Varying Intensities, Different Genders, and Age Ranges Faces
title_full Impaired Recognition of Static and Dynamic Facial Emotions in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Stimuli of Varying Intensities, Different Genders, and Age Ranges Faces
title_fullStr Impaired Recognition of Static and Dynamic Facial Emotions in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Stimuli of Varying Intensities, Different Genders, and Age Ranges Faces
title_full_unstemmed Impaired Recognition of Static and Dynamic Facial Emotions in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Stimuli of Varying Intensities, Different Genders, and Age Ranges Faces
title_short Impaired Recognition of Static and Dynamic Facial Emotions in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Stimuli of Varying Intensities, Different Genders, and Age Ranges Faces
title_sort impaired recognition of static and dynamic facial emotions in children with autism spectrum disorder using stimuli of varying intensities, different genders, and age ranges faces
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8417587/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34489754
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.693310
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