Impaired sadness recognition is linked to social interaction deficit in autism

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1501-1510

  Boraston, Zillah ^a   Blakemore, Sarah Jayne ^b   Chilvers, Rebecca ^a   Skuse, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animations; Asperger syndrome; Autistic; Emotion; Endophenotype; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33846186440     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.11.010     Document Type: Article

References (66)

1. Abell F., Happe F., and Frith U. Do triangles play tricks? Attribution of mental states to animated shapes in normal and abnormal development. Journal of Cognitive Development 15 (2000) 1-20
2. Adolphs R., Gosselin F., Buchanan T.W., Tranel D., Schyns P., and Damasio A.R. A mechanism for impaired fear recognition after amygdala damage. Nature 6 (2005) 68-72
3. Adolphs R., Sears L., and Piven J. Abnormal processing of social information from faces in autism. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 13 (2001) 232-240
4. Allison T., Puce A., and McCarthy G. Social perception from visual cues: Role of the STS region. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 4 (2000) 267-278
5. Bachevalier J., and Loveland K.A. The orbitofrontal-amygdala circuit and self-regulation of social-emotional behaviour in autism. Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews 30 (2006) 97-117
6. Bacon A.L., Fein D., Morris R., Waterhouse L., and Allen D. The responses of autistic children to the distress of others. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 28 (1998) 129-142
7. Baron-Cohen S., Spitz A., and Cross P. Do children with autism recognise surprise? A research note. Cognition and Emotion 7 (1993) 507-516
8. Blair R.J. A cognitive developmental approach to morality: Investigating the psychopath. Cognition 57 (1995) 1-29
9. Blair R.J., and Coles M. Expression recognition and behavioural problems in early adolescence. Cognitive Development 15 (2000) 421-434
10. Blair R.J., Morris J.S., Frith C.D., Perrett D.I., and Dolan R.J. Dissociable neural responses to facial expressions of sadness and anger. Brain 122 (1999) 883-893
11. Blake R., Turner L.M., Smoski M.J., Pozdol S.L., and Stone W.L. Visual recognition of biological motion is impaired in children with autism. Psychological Science 14 (2003) 151-157
12. Blakemore S.J., Boyer P., Pachot-Clouard M., Meltzoff A., Segebarth C., and Decety J. The detection of contingency and animacy from simple animations in the human brain. Cerebral Cortex 13 (2003) 837-844
13. Bland J.M., and Altmann D.G. Statistical methods for assessing agreement between two methods of clinical measurement. Lancet 1 (1986) 307-310
14. Bloom P., and Veres C. The perceived intentionality of groups. Cognition 71 (1999) B1-B9
15. Bolte S., Hubl D., Feineis-Matthews S., Prvulovic D., Dierks T., and Poustka F. Facial affect recognition training in autism: Can we animate the fusiform gyrus?. Behavioral Neuroscience 120 1 (2006) 211-216
16. Bormann-Kischkel C., Vilsmeier M., and Baude B. The development of emotional concepts in autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 36 (1995) 1243-1259
17. Buitelaar J.K., van der Wees M., Swaab-Barneveld H., and van der Gaag R.J. Theory of mind and emotion-recognition functioning in autistic spectrum disorders and in psychiatric control and normal children. Developmental Psychopathology 11 (1999) 39-58
18. Castelli F. Understanding emotions from standardised facial expressions in autism and normal development. Autism 9 (2005) 428-449
19. Castelli F., Frith C., Happe F., and Frith U. Autism, Asperger syndrome and brain mechanisms for the attribution of mental states to animated shapes. Brain 125 (2002) 1839-1849
20. Castelli F., Happe F., Frith U., and Frith C. Movement and mind, a functional imaging study of perception and interpretation of complex intentional movement patterns. Neuroimage 12 (2000) 314-325
21. Cicchetti D.V. Guidelines, criteria, and rules of thumb for evaluating normed and standardized assessment instruments in psychology. Psychological Assessment 6 (1994) 284-290
22. Cohen J. Statisical power analysis for the behavioural sciences. 2nd ed. (1988), Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ
23. Dalton K.M., Nacewicz B.M., Johnstone T., Schaefer H.S., Gernsbacher M.A., Goldsmith H.H., et al. Gaze fixation and the neural circuitry of face processing in autism. Nature Neuroscience 8 (2005) 519-526
24. Dapretto M., Davies M.S., Pfeifer J.H., Scott A.A., Sigman M., Bookheimer S.Y., et al. Understanding emotions in others: Mirror neuron dysfunction in children with autism spectrum disorders. Nature Neuroscience 9 (2006) 28-30
25. DiCicco-Bloom E., Lord C., Zwaigenbaum L., Courchesne E., Dager S.R., Schmitz C., et al. The developmental neurobiology of autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Neuroscience 26 (2006) 6897-6906
26. Ekman P., and Friesen W.V. Pictures of facial affect (1976), Consulting Psychologists, Palo Alto, CA
27. Ekman P., and Friesen W.V. Manual for the facial action coding system (1978), Consulting Psychologists Press, Palo Alto
28. Fitzgerald D.A., Angstadt M., Jelsone L.M., Nathan P.J., and Phan K.L. Beyond threat: Amygdala reactivity across multiple expressions of facial affect. Neuroimage 30 (2006) 1441-1448
29. Frith U. Autism. Explaining the enigma (1989), Blackwell, Oxford
30. Frith U. Emanuel Miller lecure: Confusions and controversies about Asperger syndrome. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 45 (2004) 672-686
31. Goldin P.R., Hutcherson C.A., Ochsner K.N., Glover G.H., Gabrieli J.D., and Gross J.J. The neural bases of amusement and sadness: A comparison of block contrast and subject-specific emotion intensity regression approaches. Neuroimage 27 (2005) 26-36
32. Happe F. Studying weak central coherence at low levels: Children with autism do not succumb to visual illusions. A research note. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 37 (1996) 873-877
33. Heberlein A.S., Adolphs R., Tranel D., and Damasio H. Cortical regions for judgments of emotions and personality traits from point-light walkers. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 16 (2004) 1143-1158
34. Heider F., and Simmel M. An experimental study of apparent behaviour. American Journal of Psychology 57 (1944) 243-259
35. Hobson R.P. The autistic child's appraisal of expressions of emotion. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 27 (1986) 321-342
36. Hobson R.P. The autistic child's appraisal of expressions of emotion: A further study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 27 (1986) 671-680
37. Hobson R.P., Ouston J., and Lee A. What's in a face? The case of autism. British Journal of Psychology 79 (1988) 441-453
38. Howard M.A., Cowell P.E., Boucher J., Broks P., Mayes A., Farrant A., et al. Convergent neuroanatomical and behavioural evidence of an amygdala hypothesis of autism. Neuroreport 11 (2000) 2931-2935
39. Joseph R.M., and Tager-Flusberg H. The relationship of theory of mind and executive functions to symptom type and severity in children with autism. Development and Psychopathology 16 (2004) 137-155
40. Killgore W.D., and Yurgelun-Todd D.A. Activation of the amygdala and anterior cingulate during nonconscious processing of sad versus happy faces. Neuroimage 21 (2004) 1215-1223
41. Klin A. Attributing social meaning to ambiguous visual stimuli in higher-functioning autism and Asperger syndrome: The social attribution task. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 41 (2000) 831-846
42. Klin A., Jones W., Schultz R., Volkmar F., and Cohen D. Visual fixation patterns during viewing of naturalistic social situations as predictors of social competence in individuals with autism. Archives of General Psychiatry 59 (2002) 809-816
43. Lindner J.L., and Rosen L.A. Decoding of emotion through facial expression, prosody and verbal content in children and adolescents with Asperger's Syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 36 (2006) 769-777
44. Lord C., Risi S., Lambrecht L., Cook Jr. E.H., Leventhal B.L., DiLavore P.C., et al. The autism diagnostic observation schedule-generic: A standard measure of social and communication deficits associated with the spectrum of autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 30 (2000) 205-223
45. Milne E., Swettenham J., Hansen P., Campbell R., Jeffries H., and Plaisted K. High motion coherence thresholds in children with autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 43 (2002) 255-263
46. Moore D.G., and Hobson R.P. Components of person perception: An investigation with autistic, non-autistic retarded and typically developing children and adolescents. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 15 (1997) 401-423
47. Mueller W.H., and Martorell R. Reliability and accuracy of measurement. In: Lohman T.G., Roche A.F., and Martorell R. (Eds). Anthropometric standardization reference manual (1988), Human Kinetics Books, Champaign, IL 83-86
48. Narumoto J., Okada T., Sadato N., Fukui K., and Yonekura Y. Attention to emotion modulates fMRI activity in human right superior temporal sulcus. Brain Research: Cognitive Brain Research 12 (2001) 225-231
49. Ozonoff S., Pennington B.F., and Rogers S.J. Are there emotion perception deficits in young autistic children?. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 31 (1990) 343-361
50. Pelphrey K.A., Sasson N.J., Reznick J.S., Paul G., Goldman B.D., and Piven J. Visual scanning of faces in autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 32 (2002) 249-261
51. Piggot J., Kwon H., Mobbs D., Blasey C., Lotspeich L., Menon V., et al. Emotional attribution in high-functioning individuals with autistic spectrum disorder: A functional imaging study. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 43 4 (2004) 473-480
52. Rogers J., Viding E., Blair R.J., Frith U., and Happe F. Autism Spectrum Disorder and Psychopathy: Shared cognitive underpinnings or double hit?. Psychological Medicine 36 (2006) 1789-1798
53. Scholl B.J., and Tremoulet P.D. Perceptual causality and animacy. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 4 (2000) 299-309
54. Schultz R. Developmental deficits in social perception in autism: The role of the amygdala and fusiform face area. International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience 23 (2005) 125-141
55. Schultz R., Grelotti D., Klin A., Kleinman J., Van der Gaag C., Marois R., et al. The role of the fusiform face area in social cognition: Implications for the pathobiology of autism. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 358 (2003) 415-427
56. Shrout P.E., and Fleiss J.L. Intraclass correlations: Uses in assessing rater reliability. Psychological Bulletin 2 (1979) 420-428
57. Sigman M.D., Kasari C., Kwon J.-H., and Yirmiya N. Responses to the negative emotions of others by autistic, mentally retarded and normal children. Child Development 63 (1992) 796-807
58. Skuse D., Lawrence K., and Tang J. Measuring social-cognitive functions in children with somatotropic axis dysfunction. Hormone Research 64 (2005) 73-82
59. Spencer J., O'Brien J., Riggs K., Braddick O., Atkinson J., and Wattam-Bell J. Motion processing in autism: Evidence for a dorsal stream deficiency. Neuroreport 11 (2000) 2765-2767
60. Spezio, M. L., Adolphs, R., Hurley, R. S., & Piven, J. (2006). Abnormal Use of Facial Information in High-Functioning Autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, in press.
61. Spezio M.L., Adolphs R., Hurley R.S., and Piven J. Analysis of face gaze in autism using "Bubbles". Neuropsychologia 45 (2007) 144-151
62. Stevens D., Charman T., and Blair R.J. Recognition of emotion in facial expressions and vocal tones in children with psychopathic tendencies. Journal of Genetic Psychology 162 (2001) 201-211
63. Tantam D., Monaghan L., Nicholson H., and Stirling J. Autistic children's ability to interpret faces: A research note. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 30 (1989) 623-630
64. Teunisse J.-P., and de Gelder B. Impaired categorical perception of facial expressions in high-functioning adolescents with autism. Child Neuropsychology 7 (2001) 1-14
65. Wang A.T., Dapretto M., Hariri A.R., Sigman M., and Bookheimer S.Y. Neural correlates of facial affect processing in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 43 4 (2004) 481-490
66. Wang L., McCarthy G., Song A.W., and Labar K.S. Amygdala activation to sad pictures during high field (4 tesla) functional magnetic resonance imaging. Emotion 5 (2005) 12-22