Emotion perception in music in high-functioning adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Eve Marie Quintin; Anjali Bhatara; Hélène Poissant; Eric Fombonne; Daniel J. Levitin

doi:10.1007/s10803-010-1146-0

Emotion perception in music in high-functioning adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Eve Marie Quintin, Anjali Bhatara, Hélène Poissant, Eric Fombonne, Daniel J. Levitin

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Abstract

Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) succeed at a range of musical tasks. The ability to recognize musical emotion as belonging to one of four categories (happy, sad, scared or peaceful) was assessed in high-functioning adolescents with ASD (N = 26) and adolescents with typical development (TD, N = 26) with comparable performance IQ, auditory working memory, and musical training and experience. When verbal IQ was controlled for, there was no significant effect of diagnostic group. Adolescents with ASD rated the intensity of the emotions similarly to adolescents with TD and reported greater confidence in their responses when they had correctly (vs. incorrectly) recognized the emotions. These findings are reviewed within the context of the amygdala theory of autism.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1240-1255
Number of pages	16
Journal	Journal of autism and developmental disorders
Volume	41
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-010-1146-0
State	Published - Sep 2011
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Adolescence
Autism spectrum disorders
Emotion
Music

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Developmental and Educational Psychology

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