From facial emotional recognition abilities to emotional attribution: A study in Down syndrome

Adult; Down syndrome; Emotional attribution; Facial expressions; Child; Concept Formation; Emotions; Facial Expression; Female; Humans; Male; Neuropsychological Tests; Social Perception

Abstract :

[en] Facial expression processing and the attribution of facial emotions to a context were investigated in adults with Down syndrome (DS) in two experiments. Their performances were compared with those of a child control group matched for receptive vocabulary. The ability to process faces without emotional content was controlled for, and no differences appeared between the two groups. Specific impairments were found in the DS group according to the task modalities and the type of facial emotional expressions. In the emotion matching condition, the DS adults showed overall difficulties whereas in the identification and recognition conditions they were particularly impaired when processing the neutral expression. In the emotion attribution task, they exhibited difficulties with the sad expression only and the analysis of their error pattern revealed that they rarely selected this expression throughout the task. The sad emotion was the only one that showed a significant relationship with the facial expression processing tasks. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Disciplines :

Neurosciences & behavior

Author, co-author :

Hippolyte, Loyse; Child Clinical Neuropsychology Unit, University of Geneva, Boulevard du Pont d'Arve 40, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland

Barisnikov, Koviljka; Child Clinical Neuropsychology Unit, University of Geneva, Boulevard du Pont d'Arve 40, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland

Van der Linden, Martial ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie > Département de Psychologie

Detraux, Jean-Jacques; Université de Liège - ULiège

Language :

English

Title :

From facial emotional recognition abilities to emotional attribution: A study in Down syndrome

Publication date :

2009

Journal title :

Research in Developmental Disabilities

ISSN :

0891-4222

eISSN :

1873-3379

Publisher :

Elsevier, United Kingdom

Volume :

Issue :

Pages :

1007-1022

Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Funders :

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung: 100014-120657/1John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

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