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The Perception of Emotions in Spoken Language in Undergraduates with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Preserved Social Skill

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Identifying emotions in speech is based on the interaction of lexical content and prosody. This may be disrupted in individuals with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder (HF-ASD). Undergraduates with HF-ASD (n = 20) and matched typically developed peers (n = 20) were tested using the (Hebrew) Test for Rating of Emotions in Speech. Participants rated the degree to which a target-emotion is present in spoken sentences, in which the emotional-lexical and -prosodic content appear in different combinations from trial to trial. No group differences were found in measures of emotion-identification, selective-attention (focusing on one target-channel) and integration. These preserved abilities can partially explain the high levels of independence and self-control characterizing students with HF-ASD. Support programs may rely on such skills to improve social interactions.

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  1. Note, the long T-RES included the fear emotion as well. However, to shorten the test, we removed the fear emotion that was found to be the least reliable in previous studies (Ben-David et al. 2016b; Pell et al. 2009).

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Ben-David, B.M., Ben-Itzchak, E., Zukerman, G. et al. The Perception of Emotions in Spoken Language in Undergraduates with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Preserved Social Skill. J Autism Dev Disord 50, 741–756 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-04297-2

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