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Selective Attention to Facial Emotion and Identity in Children With A utism: Evidence for Global Identity and Local Emotion
Author(s) -
Song Yongning,
Hakoda Yuji
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
autism research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.656
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1939-3806
pISSN - 1939-3792
DOI - 10.1002/aur.1242
Subject(s) - psychology , autism , identity (music) , facial expression , perception , autism spectrum disorder , emotional expression , expression (computer science) , asperger syndrome , emotion perception , face perception , developmental psychology , face (sociological concept) , cognitive psychology , communication , neuroscience , linguistics , philosophy , physics , computer science , acoustics , programming language
The present study sought to test the global‐identity and local‐emotion processing hypothesis in face perception by examining emotional interference in face perception in children with high‐functioning autism/Asperger's syndrome. Participants judged either the expression or the identity of faces while identity/expression was either held constant or varied (Garner paradigm). The results revealed that emotional expressions interfered with identity processing in face perception for autism spectrum disorder individuals. Taken together with previous findings, our results suggest that emotion judgment mainly depends on local processing, while identity judgment mainly depends on global processing. A utism R es 2012, 5: 282–285. © 2012 I nternational S ociety for A utism R esearch, W iley P eriodicals, I nc.