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Vol.21, No.4, 77 ~ 91, 2018
Title
Emotion Perception and Multisensory Integration in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Review of Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Studies
 
Abstract
Behavioral studies of emotion recognition in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have yielded mixed results. Most of the studies focused on emotion recognition abilities with regard to ASD using stimuli with unisensory modality, making it difficult to determine difficulties in real life emotion perception in ASD. Herein, we review the recent behavioral and cognitive neuroscience studies on emotion recognition functions in ASD, including both unisensory and multisensory emotional information, to elucidate the possible difficulties in emotion recognition in ASD. In our study, we discovered that people with ASD have problems in the process of integrating emotional information during emotion recognition tasks. The following four points are discussed: (1) The restrictions of previous studies, (2) deficits in emotion recognition in ASD especially in recognizing multisensory information, (3) possible compensation mechanisms for emotion recognition in ASD, and (4) the possible roles of attention and language functions in emotion recognition in ASD. The compensatory mechanisms proposed herein for ASD with regard to emotion recognition abilities could contribute to a therapeutic approach for improving emotion recognition functions in ASD.
Key Words
Autism Spectrum Disorders, Compensatory Mechanism, Emotion Recognition, Multisensory Integration, 자폐 스펙트럼 장애, 보상기제, 정서인식, 다중감각 통합
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