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http://dx.doi.org/10.21187/jmhb.2022.19.1.001

Emotion Recognition in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Comparison of Musical and Visual Cues  

Yoon, Yea-Un (Dongdaemun Middle School)
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Journal of Music and Human Behavior / v.19, no.1, 2022 , pp. 1-20 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to evaluate how accurately children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD; n = 9) recognized four basic emotions (i.e., happiness, sadness, anger, and fear) following musical or visual cues. Their performance was compared to that of typically developing children (TD; n = 14). All of the participants were between the ages of 7 and 13 years. Four musical cues and four visual cues for each emotion were presented to evaluate the participants' ability to recognize the four basic emotions. The results indicated that there were significant differences between the two groups between the musical and visual cues. In particular, the ASD group demonstrated significantly less accurate recognition of the four emotions compared to the TD group. However, the emotion recognition of both groups was more accurate following the musical cues compared to the visual cues. Finally, for both groups, their greatest recognition accuracy was for happiness following the musical cues. In terms of the visual cues, the ASD group exhibited the greatest recognition accuracy for anger. This initial study support that musical cues can facilitate emotion recognition in children with ASD. Further research is needed to improve our understanding of the mechanisms involved in emotion recognition and the role of sensory cues play in emotion recognition for children with ASD.
Keywords
autism spectrum disorder; emotion recognition; intended emotion; musical cues; visual cues;
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