Title |
The Effects of Autism and Alexithymia on Physiological and Verbal Responsiveness to Music
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Published in |
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, July 2012
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DOI | 10.1007/s10803-012-1587-8 |
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Authors |
Rory Allen, Rob Davis, Elisabeth Hill |
Abstract |
It has been suggested that individuals with autism will be less responsive to the emotional content of music than typical individuals. With the aim of testing this hypothesis, a group of high-functioning adults on the autism spectrum was compared with a group of matched controls on two measures of emotional responsiveness to music, comprising physiological and verbal measures. Impairment in participants ability to verbalize their emotions (type-II alexithymia) was also assessed. The groups did not differ significantly on physiological responsiveness, but the autism group was significantly lower on the verbal measure. However, inclusion of the alexithymia score as a mediator variable nullified this group difference, suggesting that the difference was due not to absence of underlying emotional responsiveness to music in autism, but to a reduced ability to articulate it. |
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Researcher | 20 | 12% |
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