Emotional speech comprehension in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders

Highlights • We studied the understanding of emotional speech by individuals with ASD participants. • ASD and their controls performed a computerized task featuring emotional prosody. • Emotional prosody was presented either embedded in a discrepant context or alone. • When prosody was the sole cue,...

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Published inJournal of communication disorders Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 309 - 320
Main Authors Le Sourn-Bissaoui, Sandrine, Aguert, Marc, Girard, Pauline, Chevreuil, Claire, Laval, Virginie
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Elsevier Inc 01.07.2013
Elsevier
Subjects
Adolescent
Affective speech
Age Factors
Autism spectrum disorder
Case-Control Studies
Child
Child Development Disorders, Pervasive - psychology
Comprehension
Emotional prosody
Emotional speech
Emotions
Humanities and Social Sciences
Humans
Male
Pragmatic abilities
Psychiatry
Psychology
Speech Perception
Emotional prosody
Emotional speech
Affective speech
Pragmatic abilities
Autism spectrum disorder
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Summary:Highlights • We studied the understanding of emotional speech by individuals with ASD participants. • ASD and their controls performed a computerized task featuring emotional prosody. • Emotional prosody was presented either embedded in a discrepant context or alone. • When prosody was the sole cue, participants with ASD performed as well as controls. • When prosody was embedded in a discrepant context, ASD and their controls differed.
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ISSN:0021-9924
1873-7994
DOI:10.1016/j.jcomdis.2013.03.002