Reduced Differentiation of Emotion-Associated Bodily Sensations in Autism

Autor/inn/en	Palser, Eleanor R.; Galvez-Pol, Alejandro; Palmer, Clare E.; Hannah, Ricci; Fotopoulou, Aikaterini; Pellicano, Elizabeth; Kilner, James M.
Titel	Reduced Differentiation of Emotion-Associated Bodily Sensations in Autism
Quelle	In: Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 25 (2021) 5, S.1321-1334 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Palser, Eleanor R.) ORCID (Pellicano, Elizabeth)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1362-3613
DOI	10.1177/1362361320987950
Schlagwörter	Autism; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Emotional Response; Human Body; Children; Foreign Countries; Perceptual Impairments; Physiology; Adolescents; United Kingdom (England); United Kingdom (London); Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule; Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Emotionales Verhalten; Menschlicher Körper; Child; Kind; Kinder; Ausland; Perceptual handicaps; Wahrnehmungsstörung; Physiologie; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher
Abstract	Differences in understanding emotion in autism are well-documented, although far more research has considered how being autistic impacts an understanding of other people's emotions, compared to their own. In neurotypical adults and children, many emotions are associated with distinct bodily maps of experienced sensation, and the ability to report these maps is significantly related to the awareness of interoceptive signals. Here, in 100 children who either carry a clinical diagnosis of autism (n = 45) or who have no history of autism (n = 55), we investigated potential differences in differentiation across autistic children's bodily maps of emotion, as well as how such differentiation relates to the processing of interoceptive signals. As such, we measured objective interoceptive performance using the heartbeat-counting task, and participants' subjective experience of interoceptive signals using the child version of the Body Perception Questionnaire. We found less differentiation in the bodily maps of emotion in autistic children, but no association with either objective or subjective interoceptive processing. These findings suggest that, in addition to previously reported differences in detecting others' emotional states, autistic children have a less differentiated bodily experience of emotion. This does not, however, relate to differences in interoceptive perception as measured here. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01