Can individuals with Williams syndrome interpret mental states from moving faces?

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1914-1922

  Riby, Deborah M ^a   Back, Elisa ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Facial expression; Mental states; Social cognition; Williams syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MOUTH; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); WILLIAMS SYNDROME;

EID: 77953028791     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.03.010     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. Adolphs R. The neurobiology of social cognition. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 2001, 11:231-239.
2. Adolphs R., Tranel D., Damasio H., Damasio A. Impaired recognition of emotion in facial expressions following bilateral damage to the human amygdala. Nature 1994, 372:669-672.
3. Adolphs R., Baron-Cohen S., Tranel D. Impaired recognition of social emotions following amygdala damage. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2002, 14:1264-1274.
4. Back E., Jordan T.R., Thomas S.M. The recognition of mental states from dynamic and static facial expressions. Visual Cognition 2009, 17:1271-1286.
5. Back E., Ropar D., Mitchell P. Do the eyes have it? Inferring mental states from animated faces in autism. Child Development 2007, 78:397-411.
6. Back, E., Ropar, D., & Mitchell, P. (in preparation). The attribution of mental states to facial expressions in typically developing children.
7. Baron-Cohen S. Mindblindness: An essay on autism and theory of mind 1995, MA MIT Press, Cambridge.
8. Baron-Cohen S., Wheelwright S., Hill J. The 'reading the mind in the eyes' test revised version: A study with normal adults, and adults with Asperger syndrome or high functioning autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2001, 42:241-251.
9. Baron-Cohen S., Wheelwright S., Jolliffe T. Is there a 'language of the eyes'? Evidence from normal adults and adults with autism or Asperger syndrome. Visual Cognition 1997, 4:311-331.
10. Brock J., Einav S., Riby D.M. The other end of the spectrum? Social cognition in Williams syndrome. Social cognition: Development, neuroscience and autism 2008, Blackwell, Oxford, Chapter 18. V. Reid, T. Striano (Eds.).
11. Davies M., Udwin O., Howlin P. Adults with Williams syndrome. Preliminary study of social, emotional and behavioural difficulties. British Journal of Psychiatry 1998, 172:273-276.
12. Diamond R., Carey S. Why faces are and are not special: An effect of expertise. Journal of Experimental Psychology 1986, 2:107-117.
13. Doherty-Sneddon G., Riby D.M., Calderwood L., Ainsworth L. Stuck on you: Face-to-face arousal and gaze aversion in Williams syndrome. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry 2009, 14:510-523.
14. Dunn L.M., Dunn L.M., Whetton C., Burley J. British Picture Vocabulary Scale II 1997, NFER-Nelson Publishing, Windsor, UK.
15. Dykens E.M., Rosner B. Refining behavioural phenotypes: Personality motivation in Williams and Prada-Willis syndromes. American Journal of Mental Retardation 1999, 104:158-169.
16. Ekman P. Facial expression and emotion. American Psychologist 1993, 48:384-392.
17. Frigerio E., Burt D.M., Gagliardi C., Cioffi G., Martelli S., Perrett D.I., et al. Is everybody always my friend? Perception of approachability in Williams syndrome. Neuropsychologia 2006, 44:254-259.
18. Gagliardi C., Frigerio E., Burt D.M., Cazzaniga I., Perrett D.I., Borgatti R. Facial expression recognition in Williams syndrome. Neuropsychologia 2003, 41:733-738.
19. Goodman R. Psychometric properties of the strengths and difficulties questionnaire. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2001, 40:1337-1345.
20. Gosch A., Pankau R. Personality characteristics and behaviour problems in individuals of different ages with Williams syndrome. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 1997, 39:527-533.
21. Haas B.W., Mills D., Yam A., Hoeft F., Bellugi U., Reiss A. Genetic influences on sociability: Heightened amygdala reactivity and event-related responses to positive social stimuli in Williams syndrome. The Journal of Neuroscience 2009, 29:1132-1139.
22. Harwood N., Hall L.J., Shinkfield A.J. Recognition of facial emotional expressions from moving and static displays by individuals with mental retardation. American Journal on Mental Retardation 1999, 104:270-278.
23. Haxby J.V., Hoffman E.A., Gobbini M.I. The distributed human neural system for face perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2000, 4:223-233.
24. Howlin P., Davies M., Udwin O. Cognitive functioning in adults with Williams syndrome. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 1998, 39:183-189.
25. Jawaid A., Schmolck H., Schulz P.E. Hypersociability in Williams Syndrome: A role for the Amygdala?. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry 2008, 13:338-342.
26. Jawaid, A., Riby, D. M., Egridere, S., Schmolck, H., Kass, J. S., & Schulz, P. E. (in press). Approachability in Williams syndrome. Neuropsychologia.
27. Jones W., Bellugi U., Lai Z., Chiles M., Reilly J., Lincoln A., et al. Hypersociability: The social and affective phenotype of Williams syndrome. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2000, 12:30-46.
28. Karmiloff-Smith A., Klima E., Bellugi U., Grant J., Baron-Cohen S. Is there a social module? Language, face processing, and theory of mind in individuals with Williams syndrome. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 1995, 7:196-208.
29. Kington J.M., Jones L.A., Watt A.A., Hopkin E.J., Williams J. Impaired eye expression recognition in schizophrenia. Journal of Psychiatric Research 2000, 34:341-347.
30. Klein-Tasman B.P., Mervis C.B. Distinctive personality characteristics of children with Williams syndrome. Developmental Neuropsychology 2003, 23:271-292.
31. Korenberg J.R., Chen X.N., Hirota H., Lai Z., Bellugi U., Burian D., et al. Genome structure and cognitive map of Williams syndrome. Journey from cognition to brain to gene: Perspectives from Williams syndrome 2000, 147-177. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, US. M. St. George, U. Bellugi (Eds.).
32. Lander K., Bruce V. The role of motion in learning new faces. Visual Cognition 2003, 10:897-912.
33. Langdell T. Recognition of faces: An approach to the study of autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 1978, 19:255-268.
34. Laws G., Bishop D.V.M. Pragmatic language impairments and social deficits in Williams syndrome: A comparison with Down syndrome and specific language impairment. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 2004, 39:45-64.
35. Martens I., Siegmund H., Grusser O.J. Gaze motor asymmetries in the perception of faces during a memory task. Neuropsychologia 1993, 31:989-998.
36. Martens M.A., Wilson S.J., Dudgeon P., Reutens D.C. Approachability and the amygdala: Insights from Williams syndrome. Neuropsychologia 2009, 47:2446-2453.
37. Mervis C.B., Morris C.A., Klein T., Bonita P., Bertrand J., Kwitny S., et al. Attentional characteristics of infants and toddlers with Williams syndrome during triadic interactions. Developmental Neuropsychology 2003, 23:243-268.
38. Meyer-Lindenberg A., Mervis C.B., Berman K.F. Neural mechanisms in Williams syndrome: A unique window to genetic influences on cognition and behaviour. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2006, 7:380-393.
39. Plesa Skwerer D., Faja S., Schofield C., Verbalis A., Tager-Flusberg H. Perceiving facial and vocal expressions of emotion in Williams syndrome. American Journal on Mental Retardation 2006, 111:15-26.
40. Plesa Skwerer D., Verbalis A., Schofield C., Faja S., Tager-Flusberg H. Social perceptual abilities in adolescents and adults with Williams syndrome. Cognitive Neuropsychology 2006, 23:338-349.
41. Plesa Skwerer D., Borum L., Verbalis A., Schofield C., Crawford N., Ciciolla L., et al. Autonomic responses to dynamic displays of facial expressions in adolescents and adults with Williams syndrome. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 2009, 4:93-100.
42. Ponnet K.S., Roeyers H., Buysse A., de Clercq A., van der Heyden E. Advanced mind-reading in adults with Asperger syndrome. Autism 2004, 8:249-266.
43. Porter M.A., Coltheart M., Langdon R. The neuropsychological basis of hypersociability in Williams and Down Syndrome. Neuropsychologia 2007, 45:2839-2849.
44. Porter, M. A., Shaw, T. A., & Marsh, P. J. (in press). An unusual attraction to the eyes in Williams-Beuren syndrome: A manipulation of facial affect while measuring face scanpaths. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry.
45. Raven J.C., Court J.H., Raven J. Raven's coloured progressive matrices 1990, Oxford Psychologists Press, Oxford.
46. Rhodes S.M., Riby D.M., Park J., Fraser E., Campbell L.E. Executive neuropsychological functioning in individuals with Williams syndrome. Neuropsychologia 2010, 48:1216-1226.
47. Riby, D. M. (in press). Show me your eyes: Evidence from William syndrome. Visual Cognition.
48. Riby D.M., Doherty-Sneddon G., Bruce V. The eyes or the mouth? Feature salience and unfamiliar face processing in Williams syndrome and autism. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 2009, 62:189-203.
49. Riby D.M., Hancock P.J.B. Viewing it differently: Social scene perception in Williams syndrome and Autism. Neuropsychologia 2008, 46:2855-2860.
50. Riby D.M., Hancock P.J.B. Looking at movies and cartoons: Eye-tracking evidence from Williams syndrome and autism. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research 2009, 53:169-181.
51. Riby, D. M., Bruce, V., & Jawaid, A. (in press). Everyone's friend? The case of Williams syndrome. In B. Oakley, A. Knafo, D. Johnson, G. Madhavan, & D. Sloan Wilson (Eds.) Pathological Altruism. Oxford University Press.
52. Tager-Flusberg H., Boshart J., Baron-Cohen S. Reading the windows to the soul: Evidence of domain-specific sparing in Williams syndrome. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 1998, 10:631-639.
53. Tager-Flusberg H., Sullivan K. A componential view of theory of mind: Evidence from Williams syndrome. Cognition 2000, 76:59-89.
54. Yardley L., McDermott L., Pisarski S., Duchaine B., Nakayama K. Psychosocial consequences of developmental prosopagnosia: A problem of recognition. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 2008, 65:445-451.
55. Zinck A., Newen A. Classifying emotion: A developmental account. Synthese 2008, 161:1-25.
56. Zinck A. Self-referential emotions. Consciousness and Cognition 2008, 17:496-505.