The impact of face masks on autistic and non-autistic adults' face processing abilities / Natasha BAXTER in Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 118 (October 2024)  

Public ISBD [article]  inResearch in Autism Spectrum Disorders > 118 (October 2024) . - 102485 Titre : The impact of face masks on autistic and non-autistic adults' face processing abilities Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : Natasha BAXTER, Auteur ; Lucy HARLOW, Auteur ; Ebony HARRISON, Auteur ; Caitlin SMITH, Auteur ; Hannah HOBSON, Auteur Article en page(s) : 102485 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Face processing  Emotion recognition  Alexithymia  Facemasks  COVID-19 Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Atypical emotion recognition is argued to be characteristic of autism spectrum conditions (ASC), underpinned in part by atypical eye gaze, with less eye contact and more gaze direction towards the mouth. Given the widespread adoption of face masks due to the Covid-19 pandemic, exploring the effect of face masks on face processing in autism, as they occlude the mouth region, is of interest. This study investigated the impact of face masks on emotion and identity recognition, with a non-autistic (N = 50) and autistic (N = 27) sample. Participants also completed the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, and the abridged Autism Quotient, to investigate the roles of alexithymia and autistic traits in any impacts of face masks on face processing abilities. Masks were detrimental to performance for both autistic and non-autistic groups, and masks affected participants' performance on the emotion recognition task more than the identity recognition task. Autistic participants' performance was more negatively affected by the presence of masks, affecting emotion recognition precision in particular. The impact of face masks was not predicted by alexithymia or autistic traits, after gender and age were taken into account. Overall, the results suggest that masks negatively affect face processing for both non-autistic and autistic groups, particularly emotion recognition, however the impact of masks is amplified for autistic people. These results supplement autistic people?s reports that masks interfere with social interactions. En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2024.102485 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=540 [article] The impact of face masks on autistic and non-autistic adults' face processing abilities [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Natasha BAXTER, Auteur ; Lucy HARLOW, Auteur ; Ebony HARRISON, Auteur ; Caitlin SMITH, Auteur ; Hannah HOBSON, Auteur . - 102485. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders > 118 (October 2024) . - 102485 Mots-clés : Face processing  Emotion recognition  Alexithymia  Facemasks  COVID-19 Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Atypical emotion recognition is argued to be characteristic of autism spectrum conditions (ASC), underpinned in part by atypical eye gaze, with less eye contact and more gaze direction towards the mouth. Given the widespread adoption of face masks due to the Covid-19 pandemic, exploring the effect of face masks on face processing in autism, as they occlude the mouth region, is of interest. This study investigated the impact of face masks on emotion and identity recognition, with a non-autistic (N = 50) and autistic (N = 27) sample. Participants also completed the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, and the abridged Autism Quotient, to investigate the roles of alexithymia and autistic traits in any impacts of face masks on face processing abilities. Masks were detrimental to performance for both autistic and non-autistic groups, and masks affected participants' performance on the emotion recognition task more than the identity recognition task. Autistic participants' performance was more negatively affected by the presence of masks, affecting emotion recognition precision in particular. The impact of face masks was not predicted by alexithymia or autistic traits, after gender and age were taken into account. Overall, the results suggest that masks negatively affect face processing for both non-autistic and autistic groups, particularly emotion recognition, however the impact of masks is amplified for autistic people. These results supplement autistic people?s reports that masks interfere with social interactions. En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2024.102485 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=540

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