Age-Related Differences in Response to Music-Evoked Emotion Among Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
J Autism Dev Disord
; 46(4): 1142-51, 2016 Apr.
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| ID: mdl-26520146
ABSTRACT
While research regarding emotion recognition in ASD has focused primarily on social cues, musical stimuli also elicit strong emotional responses. This study extends and expands the few previous studies of response to music in ASD, measuring both psychophysiological and behavioral responses in younger children (ages 8-11) as well as older adolescents (ages 16-18). Compared to controls, the ASD group demonstrated reduced skin conductance response to music-evoked emotion. Younger groups, regardless of diagnosis, showed greater physiological reactivity to scary stimuli than to other emotions. There was a significant interaction of age group and diagnostic group in identifying scary music stimuli, possibly evidencing disrupted developmental trajectories in ASD for integrating physiological and cognitive cues that may underlie symptoms of anxiety.
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01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Emotions
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Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Human Development
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Music
Limits:
Adolescent
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
En
Journal:
J Autism Dev Disord
Year:
2016
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United States