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Divergent Patterns of Social Cognition Performance in Autism and 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome (22q11DS) |
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| Authors: | Kathryn L. McCabe Jessica L. Melville Dominique Rich Paul A. Strutt Gavin Cooper Carmel M. Loughland Ulrich Schall Linda E. Campbell |
| Affiliation: | 1. Schizophrenia Research Institute, 405 Liverpool St, Darlinghurst, NSW, 2010, Australia 2. Centre for Translational Neuroscience and Mental Health Research, University of Newcastle, McAuley Centre, Edith Street, Waratah, NSW, 2298, Australia 4. School of Psychology, University of Newcastle, Science Offices, Ourimbah, NSW, 2258, Australia 5. School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia 3. Hunter Medical Research Institute, Locked Bag 1, Hunter Region Mail Centre, New Castle, NSW, 2310, Australia |
| 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. |
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