Awareness of Single and Multiple Emotions in High-functioning Children with Autism

Rieffe, Carolien; Terwogt, Mark Meerum; Kotronopoulou, Katerina

doi:10.1007/s10803-006-0171-5

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“…The neurophysiological basis of this ability, often referred to as mentalizing, can be demonstrated in a network of regions, which shows reduced activation in this group (see Frith & Frith, 2006, for a review). However, much less is known of how these high-functioning individuals experience their own bodily and emotional states, although a number of studies suggest that this experience is abnormal, with impaired emotional awareness being frequently reported (Ben Shalom et al, 2006;Hill, Berthoz, & Frith, 2004;Hurlburt, Happé, & Frith, 1994;Rieffe, Meerum Terwogt, & Kotronopoulou, 2006). This study aimed to increase this knowledge by investigating emotional awareness in HFA/AS.…”

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Levels of emotional awareness and autism: An fMRI study

Silani

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Brindley

et al. 2008

Social Neuroscience

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Autism is associated with an inability to identify and distinguish one's own feelings. We assessed this inability using alexithymia and empathy questionnaires, and used fMRI to investigate brain activity while introspecting on emotion. Individuals with high functioning autism/Asperger syndrome (HFA/AS) were compared with matched controls. Participants rated stimuli from the International Affective Picture System twice, once according to the degree of un/pleasantness that the pictures induced, and once according to their color balance. The groups differed significantly on both alexithymia and empathy questionnaires. Alexithymia and lack of empathy were correlated, indicating a link between understanding one's own and others' emotions. For both groups a strong relationship between questionnaire scores and brain activity was found in the anterior insula (AI), when participants were required to assess their feelings to unpleasant pictures. Regardless of selfreported degree of emotional awareness, individuals with HFA/AS differed from controls when required to introspect on their feelings by showing reduced activation in self-reflection/mentalizing regions. Thus, we conclude that difficulties in emotional awareness are related to hypoactivity in AI in both individuals with HFA/AS and controls, and that the particular difficulties in emotional awareness in individuals with HFA/AS are not related to their impairments in selfreflection/mentalizing.

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confidence: 97%

Levels of emotional awareness and autism: An fMRI study

Silani

Bird

Brindley

et al. 2008

Social Neuroscience

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317

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“…Bolte and colleagues (2006), working with individuals with autism, observed brain activation changes following treatment in brain regions associated with visuospatial and facial processing. These results are remarkable given the developmental and longstanding nature of these disorders, which are likely to have limited any awareness of emotional material from an early age (Hill et al, 2004;Leonard et al, 2002;Rieffe et al, 2007).…”

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Emotion perception deficits following traumatic brain injury: A review of the evidence and rationale for intervention

Bornhofen

McDonald

2008

J Int Neuropsychol Soc

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While the cognitive disturbances that frequently follow severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) are relatively well understood, the ways in which these affect the psychosocial functioning of people with TBI are yet to be determined and have thus received little attention in treatment research. Growing evidence indicates that a significant proportion of individuals with TBI demonstrate an inability to recognize affective information from the face, voice, bodily movement, and posture. Because accurate interpretation of emotion in others is critical for the successful negotiation of social interactions, effective treatments are necessary. Until recently, however, there have been no rehabilitation efforts in this area. The present review examines the literature on emotion perception deficits in TBI and presents a theoretical rationale for targeted intervention. Several lines of research relevant to the remediation of emotion perception in people with TBI are considered. These include work on emotion perception remediation with other cognitively impaired populations, current neuropsychological models of emotion perception and underlying neural systems, and recent conceptualizations of remediation processes. The article concludes with a discussion of the importance of carrying out efforts to improve emotion perception within a contextualized framework in which the day-to-day relevance of training is clear to all recipients. (JINS, 2008, 14, 511-525.)

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“…It has an impact at both intrapersonal and interpersonal levels and has been linked to socio-affective deficits such as a lack of empathy (Guttman and Laporte 2002). The few studies that have examined alexithymia in children with ASD have found that, similarly to adults (Berthoz and Hill 2005), alexithymia is more prevalent among children with ASD than among TD children (Griffin et al 2015;Rieffe et al 2007). In one study it was found that the facial expressions of individuals with higher levels of alexithymia appeared to be odder than of those with lower levels (Brewer et al 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%