Research on Emotion Recognition and Dementias: Foundations and Prospects

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Gregorio González-Alcaide ◽  
Mercedes Fernández-Ríos ◽  
Rosa Redolat ◽  
Emilia Serra
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Neurological Disorders ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Scientific Output ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Clinical Neurology ◽  
Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Cognitive Areas

Background: The study of emotion recognition could be crucial for detecting alterations in certain cognitive areas or as an early sign of neurological disorders. Objective: The main objective of the study is to characterize research development on emotion recognition, identifying the intellectual structure that supports this area of knowledge, and the main lines of research attracting investigators’ interest. Methods: We identified publications on emotion recognition and dementia included in the Web of Science Core Collection, analyzing the scientific output and main disciplines involved in generating knowledge in the area. A co-citation analysis and an analysis of the bibliographic coupling between the retrieved documents elucidated the thematic orientations of the research and the reference works that constitute the foundation for development in the field. Results: A total of 345 documents, with 24,282 bibliographic references between them, were included. This is an emerging research area, attracting the interest of investigators in Neurosciences, Psychology, Clinical Neurology, and Psychiatry, among other disciplines. Four prominent topic areas were identified, linked to frontotemporal dementia, autism spectrum disorders, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s and Huntington disease. Many recent papers focus on the detection of mild cognitive impairment. Conclusion: Impaired emotion recognition may be a key sign facilitating the diagnosis and early treatment of different neurodegenerative diseases as well as for triggering the necessary provision of social and family support, explaining the growing research interest in this area.

scholarly journals A Bibliometric Insight of Genetic Factors in ASD: Emerging Trends and New Developments

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Kang Wang ◽  
Weicheng Duan ◽  
Yijie Duan ◽  
Yuxin Yu ◽  
Xiuyi Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Factors ◽  
De Novo ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Scientific Output ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
De Novo Mutations ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Genetic Abnormalities

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) cases have increased rapidly in recent decades, which is associated with various genetic abnormalities. To provide a better understanding of the genetic factors in ASD, we assessed the global scientific output of the related studies. A total of 2944 studies published between 1997 and 2018 were included by systematic retrieval from the Web of Science (WoS) database, whose scientific landscapes were drawn and the tendencies and research frontiers were explored through bibliometric methods. The United States has been acting as a leading explorer of the field worldwide in recent years. The rapid development of high-throughput technologies and bioinformatics transferred the research method from the traditional classic method to a big data-based pipeline. As a consequence, the focused research area and tendency were also changed, as the contribution of de novo mutations in ASD has been a research hotspot in the past several years and probably will remain one into the near future, which is consistent with the current opinions of the major etiology of ASD. Therefore, more attention and financial support should be paid to the deciphering of the de novo mutations in ASD. Meanwhile, the effective cooperation of multi-research centers and scientists in different fields should be advocated in the next step of scientific research undertaken.

Impairments in facial affect recognition associated with autism spectrum disorders: A meta-analysis

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (4pt1) ◽  
pp. 933-945 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah M. Lozier ◽  
John W. Vanmeter ◽  
Abigail A. Marsh
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Cognitive Intelligence ◽  
Affective Stimuli ◽  
Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Face Emotion Recognition

AbstractAutism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are characterized by social impairments, including inappropriate responses to affective stimuli and nonverbal cues, which may extend to poor face-emotion recognition. However, the results of empirical studies of face-emotion recognition in individuals with ASD have yielded inconsistent findings that occlude understanding the role of face-emotion recognition deficits in the development of ASD. The goal of this meta-analysis was to address three as-yet unanswered questions. Are ASDs associated with consistent face-emotion recognition deficits? Do deficits generalize across multiple emotional expressions or are they limited to specific emotions? Do age or cognitive intelligence affect the magnitude of identified deficits? The results indicate that ASDs are associated with face-emotion recognition deficits across multiple expressions and that the magnitude of these deficits increases with age and cannot be accounted for by intelligence. These findings suggest that, whereas neurodevelopmental processes and social experience produce improvements in general face-emotion recognition abilities over time during typical development, children with ASD may experience disruptions in these processes, which suggested distributed functional impairment in the neural architecture that subserves face-emotion processing, an effect with downstream developmental consequences.

scholarly journals Is Emotion Recognition Impaired in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders?

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica L. Tracy ◽  
Richard W. Robins ◽  
Roberta A. Schriber ◽  
Marjorie Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorders

scholarly journals No Differences in Emotion Recognition Strategies in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Evidence from Hybrid Faces

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kris Evers ◽  
Inneke Kerkhof ◽  
Jean Steyaert ◽  
Ilse Noens ◽  
Johan Wagemans
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Correct Identification ◽  
Face Region ◽  
Processing Strategies ◽  
Neutral Expression

Emotion recognition problems are frequently reported in individuals with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, this research area is characterized by inconsistent findings, with atypical emotion processing strategies possibly contributing to existing contradictions. In addition, an attenuated saliency of the eyes region is often demonstrated in ASD during face identity processing. We wanted to compare reliance on mouth versus eyes information in children with and without ASD, using hybrid facial expressions. A group of six-to-eight-year-old boys with ASD and an age- and intelligence-matched typically developing (TD) group without intellectual disability performed an emotion labelling task with hybrid facial expressions. Five static expressions were used: one neutral expression and four emotional expressions, namely, anger, fear, happiness, and sadness. Hybrid faces were created, consisting of an emotional face half (upper or lower face region) with the other face half showing a neutral expression. Results showed no emotion recognition problem in ASD. Moreover, we provided evidence for the existence of top- and bottom-emotions in children: correct identification of expressions mainly depends on information in the eyes (so-called top-emotions: happiness) or in the mouth region (so-called bottom-emotions: sadness, anger, and fear). No stronger reliance on mouth information was found in children with ASD.

scholarly journals Emo-mirror: a proposal to support emotion recognition in children with autism spectrum disorders

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodolfo Pavez ◽  
Jaime Diaz ◽  
Jeferson Arango-Lopez ◽  
Danay Ahumada ◽  
Carolina Mendez-Sandoval ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorders

scholarly journals Speeded Recognition of Fear and Surprise in Autism

Perception ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (12) ◽  
pp. 1117-1138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emese Nagy ◽  
Stacey C. Paton ◽  
Fiona E. A. Primrose ◽  
Tibor N. Farkas ◽  
Coreen F. Pow
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Socioemotional Functioning ◽  
Children With Asd ◽  
Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Speed And Accuracy

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) involve difficulties with socioemotional functioning; however, research on emotion recognition remains inconclusive. Children with ASD have been reported to show less susceptibility to spatial inversion. The aim of this study is to examine whether children with ASD utilize atypical abilities in socioemotional processing. This study tested 13 children with ASD (1 girl, M: 15.10 years, standard deviation [ SD]: 1.60 years), 13 children without ASD (3 girls, M: 15.92 years, SD: 1.03 years), and 20 control adults (11 women, M: 24.77 years, SD: 8.30 years) to investigate the speed and accuracy of their responses to images of neutral faces and faces expressing “easy” (happiness, anger) and “difficult” emotions (surprise, fear) in nonrotated (0°) and rotated (30°, 90°, 150°, 180°, 210°, 270°, and 330°) positions. The results showed that children with ASD recognized both easy and difficult emotions as accurately as did children and adults without ASD. Children with ASD, however, responded significantly faster to difficult emotions when the images were rotated. These results offer less support for a deficiency model than for an atypical, rapid featural type of processing used by children with ASD to encode and understand complex socioemotional stimuli.

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