title: Divergent patterns of social cognition performance in autism and 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS).
abstract: Individuals with developmental disorders frequently report a range of social cognition deficits including difficulties identifying facial displays of emotion. This study examined the specificity of face emotion processing deficits in adolescents with either autism or 22q11DS compared to typically developing (TD) controls. Two tasks (face emotion recognition and weather scene recognition) were used to explore group differences in visual scanpath strategy and concurrent recognition accuracy. For faces, the autism and 22q11DS groups demonstrated lower emotion recognition accuracy and fewer fixations compared to the TD group. Individuals with autism demonstrated fewer fixations to some weather scene stimuli compared to 22q11DS and TD groups, yet achieved a level of recognition accuracy comparable to the TD group. These findings provide evidence for a divergent pattern of social cognition dysfunction in autism and 22q11DS.
authors.affiliation: Schizophrenia Research Institute, 405 Liverpool St, Darlinghurst, NSW, 2010, Australia.
authors.forename: Kathryn L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: McCabe
authors.forename: Jessica L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Melville
authors.forename: Dominique
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rich
authors.forename: Paul A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Strutt
authors.forename: Gavin
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.forename: Carmel M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Loughland
authors.forename: Ulrich
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Schall
authors.forename: Linda E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Campbell
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002648:Child; D004062:DiGeorge Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D053483:Eye Movement Measurements / Q000295:instrumentation; D005133:Eye Movements / Q000502:physiology; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology; D012938:Social Perception; D055815:Young Adult