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Recognition and Expression of Emotional Cues by Autistic and Normal Adults
Author(s) -
Macdonald Hope,
Rutter Michael,
Howlin Patricia,
Rios Patricia,
Conteur Ann Le,
Evered Christopher,
Folstein Susan
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1989.tb00288.x
Subject(s) - autism , psychology , subclinical infection , facial expression , expression (computer science) , developmental psychology , emotional expression , audiology , cognitive psychology , communication , medicine , computer science , programming language
High‐functioning autistic adults were compared with normal adults using a battery of tests devised lo assess the recognition and expression of emotional cues in both facial and vocal modalities. The autistic subjects were relatively impaired in both the appreciation and production of emotional expressions. Although no one test provided a clear‐cut separation of the groups at the individual level, composite scores did separate (he groups quite well. It is suggested that this battery of tasks may have some value in family generic studies of autism that need to identify subclinical deficits that might be aetiologically linked with autism.