UNIGE document Scientific Article
previous document  unige:29375  next document
add to browser collection
Title

From facial emotional recognition abilities to emotional attribution: a study in Down syndrome
Authors
Hippolyte, Loyse Mahaut Miguela
Barisnikov, Koviljka
Van der Linden, Martial
Detraux, Jean-Jacques
Published in Research in developmental disabilities. 2009, vol. 30, no. 5, p. 1007-1022
Abstract 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.
Keywords Adult — Child — Concept Formation — Down Syndrome/psychology — Emotions — Facial Expression — Female — Humans — Male — Neuropsychological Tests — Social Perception
Identifiers
PMID: 19297130
Full text
Article (Published version) (339 Kb) - document accessible for UNIGE members only Limited access to UNIGE
Structures
Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie
Centres et instituts / Centre interfacultaire des sciences affectives
Research groups Affective sciences
Unité de psychopathologie et neuropsychologie cognitive (UPNC)
Citation
(ISO format) 		HIPPOLYTE, Loyse Mahaut Miguela et al. From facial emotional recognition abilities to emotional attribution: a study in Down syndrome. In: Research in developmental disabilities, 2009, vol. 30, n° 5, p. 1007-1022. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:29375

233 hits

0 download

Contact an author

Update request

Update

Deposited on : 2013-08-19

Export document
Format :
Citation style :