Measuring musical abilities of autistic children

Applebaum, Edward L.; Egel, Andrew L.; Koegel, Robert L.; Imhoff, Barbara

doi:10.1007/bf01531742

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“…Superior identification and labelling of pitch (Applebaum et al 1979;Bonnel et al 2003;Heaton et al 1998); enhanced sensitivity for pitch direction (Heaton 2005) and enhanced detection of changes in pitch contours (Heaton et al 2008) have been demonstrated by individuals with autism when compared to matched controls. On auditory discrimination tasks using music stimuli, Jones et al (2009) found that adolescents with autism performed as well as age and IQ matched controls; however a subgroup of individuals with autism demonstrated enhanced performance on the frequency discrimination task.…”

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Music Interventions for Children with Autism: Narrative Review of the Literature

Simpson

Keen

2011

J Autism Dev Disord

151

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It is widely reported that music can be beneficial to individuals with autism. This review was undertaken to determine the evidence base for the use of music as an intervention for children with autism. After searching relevant databases, 128 articles were identified of which 20 articles met the study's inclusion criteria. Composed songs and improvisational music therapy were the predominant music techniques used. There was somewhat limited evidence to support the use of music interventions under certain conditions to facilitate social, communicative and behavioural skills in young children with autism. The implications of these findings in terms of use of music interventions, issues related to generalization and maintenance, and future research are discussed.

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Music Interventions for Children with Autism: Narrative Review of the Literature

Simpson

Keen

2011

J Autism Dev Disord

151

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“…Several studies showed that ASD-subjects are superior to typically developing subjects when it comes to detailed processing of musical structures (5) . Research of Heaton et al (6,7,8) , for example, showed that children with ASD outperform their matched controls on pitch discrimination, pitch categorization and pitch memory tasks.…”

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An Embodied Approach to Testing Musical Empathy in Participants With an Autism Spectrum Disorder

Bruyn¹,

Moelants²,

Leman³

2011

Music and Medicine

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Wepresentanempiricalandqualitativestudytestingmusicalempathicabilityinsubjectswith anautismspectrumdisorder(ASD).Fourexperimentsrequiringanincreasinglevelofempathy with music, from synchronization and attuning to emotional empathy, were carried out, using kinematicdevicesformeasuringembodiedlisteningresponsesandaverbalemotionattribution task. Results suggest that people with ASD have a corporeal understanding of the affective featuresofmusic,sincetheyareabletomirrorstructuralandevenaffectivefeaturesofthemusic into corporeal articulations. However, this corporeal understanding does not give them a straightforwardaccesstotheemotionalcontentofthemusic.ThesubjectswithASDseemedto relyondisembodiedcognitiveprocessestoattributeaffectstomusic. autism,music,musicalempathy,embodiment,affectattribution One of the main symptoms of autism spectrum disorders is a disturbance of social skills, more particularly a disturbance of the ability to share the feelings and emotions with other persons. KeywordsWhile this lack of empathy in autism subjects is evident in social contexts, it is less evident whetheritalsooccursinartisticcontexts.Thispaperaimsattestingtowhatextentsubjectswith autismcandevelopanempathicrelationshipwithmusicthroughlistening.Thefocusonmusicis of particular interest because music is known to be very rich in emotional content. Many (typically developing) people use music for consolation and they often engage in a kind of emotionalrelationshipwiththemusic (1,2,3) .Agoodexampleofthisengagementiswhenpeople listentosadmusic.Initspropercontext,listeningtosadmusicmayconsoleasubjectbecauseit allows the subject to find relief in the imitation of the musical emotion, as if the music is just another social agent with whom it is possible to share emotions (4) . The question is to what degreesubjectswithautismmayfindasimilarreliefinmusic,orinmoregeneralterms,towhat degreetheydifferinmusicalempathyfromacontrolgroupoftypicallydevelopingsubjects. AnumberofstudieshavebeenaddressingtheroleofmusicforpeoplewithASD,therebymainlyfocusing on the perception of musical structure. Several studies showed that ASD-subjects are superior to typically developing subjects when it comes to detailed processing of musical structures (5) . Research of Heaton et al. (6,7,8) , for example, showed that children with ASD outperform their matched controls on pitch discrimination, pitch categorization and pitch memory tasks. The results of Bonnel et al. (9) showed that subjects with ASD were superior to typicallydevelopingindividualsinthepitchdiscriminationandcategorizationtasks.Research on ASD and affect perception in music are much more rare. Musical affect has been addressedinastudybyHeatonetal. (10) .Inthisstudy,fourteenchildrenwithASDandAsperger syndrome were tested for their ability to identify the affective connotations of melodies in the major and minormusicalmode.They were required tomatch musical excerpts with schematic representations of happy and sad faces. The results showed that there were no differences betweentheclinicalgroup...

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“…In Kanner's (1943) description of 11 children with inborn autistic disturbances of affective contact, 6 showed an interest for music, and since that time, musical abilities have been considered as a relative strength in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), in comparison to their global profile (Applebaum et al 1979;Rimland 1964). Above-average auditory processing abilities, including enhanced pitch discrimination (Bonnel et al 2003;Heaton et al 1999b) and increased sensitivity to alterations of single pitches in a melody (Heaton et al 1999b; Mottron et al 2000) have been observed in children and adolescents with ASD.…”

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Emotion Perception in Music in High-Functioning Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorders

Quintin

Bhatara

Poissant

et al. 2010

J Autism Dev Disord

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Measuring musical abilities of autistic children

Cited by 79 publications

References 5 publications

Music Interventions for Children with Autism: Narrative Review of the Literature

Music Interventions for Children with Autism: Narrative Review of the Literature

An Embodied Approach to Testing Musical Empathy in Participants With an Autism Spectrum Disorder

Emotion Perception in Music in High-Functioning Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorders

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