title: Recognition of face identity and emotion in expressive specific language impairment.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study face and emotion recognition in children with mostly expressive specific language impairment (SLI-E).
  
  
  METHODS
  A test movie to study perception and recognition of faces and mimic-gestural expression was applied to 24 children diagnosed as suffering from SLI-E and an age-matched control group of normally developing children.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Compared to a normal control group, the SLI-E children scored significantly worse in both the face and expression recognition tasks with a preponderant effect on emotion recognition. The performance of the SLI-E group could not be explained by reduced attention during the test session.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We conclude that SLI-E is associated with a deficiency in decoding non-verbal emotional facial and gestural information, which might lead to profound and persistent problems in social interaction and development.
authors.affiliation: Klinik und Poliklinik für Kinder und Jugendliche, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Deutschland. Andreas.Merkenschlager@medizin.uni-leipzig.de
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Merkenschlager
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Amorosa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kiefl
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Martinius
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D004644:Emotions; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D005868:Gestures; D006801:Humans; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D009040:Motion Pictures; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D020238:Prosopagnosia / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012938:Social Perception