TY - JOUR
T1 - Reprint of “Investigating ensemble perception of emotions in autistic and typical children and adolescents”
AU - Karaminis, Themelis
AU - Neil, Louise
AU - Manning, Catherine
AU - Turi, Marco
AU - Fiorentini, Chiara
AU - Burr, David
AU - Pellicano, Elizabeth
N1 - Funding Information:
We are very grateful to the children, families and school staff who kindly took part in this research. Thanks also to Giulia Cappagli for helping with the development of task stimuli, Anna Rudnicka for coming up with the clone-based cover story, David Aagten-Murphy and Marco Cicchini for assistance with experimental design and data analysis, and Abigail Croydon, Katy Warren, and Hannah White for their help with data collection. This work was generously supported by a grant from the UK's Medical Research Council awarded to E.P. and D.B. (MR/J013145/1) and also by the European Science Council (ERC advanced grant ?STANIB?). M.T.'s research was supported by the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FPT/2007-2013) grant agreement #338866, ECSPLAIN. Research at the Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE) is also supported by The Clothworkers' Foundation and Pears Foundation.
Funding Information:
We are very grateful to the children, families and school staff who kindly took part in this research. Thanks also to Giulia Cappagli for helping with the development of task stimuli, Anna Rudnicka for coming up with the clone-based cover story, David Aagten-Murphy and Marco Cicchini for assistance with experimental design and data analysis, and Abigail Croydon, Katy Warren, and Hannah White for their help with data collection. This work was generously supported by a grant from the UK's Medical Research Council awarded to E.P. and D.B. ( MR/J013145/1 ) and also by the E uropean Science Council (ERC advanced grant “STANIB”). M.T.'s research was supported by the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme ( FPT/2007-2013 ) grant agreement #338866, ECSPLAIN. Research at the Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE) is also supported by The Clothworkers' Foundation and Pears Foundation .
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Ensemble perception, the ability to assess automatically the summary of large amounts of information presented in visual scenes, is available early in typical development. This ability might be compromised in autistic children, who are thought to present limitations in maintaining summary statistics representations for the recent history of sensory input. Here we examined ensemble perception of facial emotional expressions in 35 autistic children, 30 age- and ability-matched typical children and 25 typical adults. Participants received three tasks: a) an ‘ensemble’ emotion discrimination task; b) a baseline (single-face) emotion discrimination task; and c) a facial expression identification task. Children performed worse than adults on all three tasks. Unexpectedly, autistic and typical children were, on average, indistinguishable in their precision and accuracy on all three tasks. Computational modelling suggested that, on average, autistic and typical children used ensemble-encoding strategies to a similar extent; but ensemble perception was related to non-verbal reasoning abilities in autistic but not in typical children. Eye-movement data also showed no group differences in the way children attended to the stimuli. Our combined findings suggest that the abilities of autistic and typical children for ensemble perception of emotions are comparable on average.
AB - Ensemble perception, the ability to assess automatically the summary of large amounts of information presented in visual scenes, is available early in typical development. This ability might be compromised in autistic children, who are thought to present limitations in maintaining summary statistics representations for the recent history of sensory input. Here we examined ensemble perception of facial emotional expressions in 35 autistic children, 30 age- and ability-matched typical children and 25 typical adults. Participants received three tasks: a) an ‘ensemble’ emotion discrimination task; b) a baseline (single-face) emotion discrimination task; and c) a facial expression identification task. Children performed worse than adults on all three tasks. Unexpectedly, autistic and typical children were, on average, indistinguishable in their precision and accuracy on all three tasks. Computational modelling suggested that, on average, autistic and typical children used ensemble-encoding strategies to a similar extent; but ensemble perception was related to non-verbal reasoning abilities in autistic but not in typical children. Eye-movement data also showed no group differences in the way children attended to the stimuli. Our combined findings suggest that the abilities of autistic and typical children for ensemble perception of emotions are comparable on average.
KW - Autism
KW - Emotions
KW - Ensemble perception
KW - Facial expressions
KW - Summary statistics
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U2 - 10.1016/j.dcn.2018.02.003
DO - 10.1016/j.dcn.2018.02.003
M3 - Article (journal)
C2 - 29475799
AN - SCOPUS:85042180780
SN - 1878-9293
VL - 29
SP - 97
EP - 107
JO - Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
JF - Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
ER -