| In real social life, people have to deal with emotion cues coming from both visually and acoustically, therefore, this study employ three experiment to explore autistic children’s ability to recognize emotion under the influence of acoustic emotion cues.30children with diagnoses of autism and 15 nonautstic control children on matched IQ and verbal ability participated in this research. They were tested on their ability to recognize simple facial emotions paired with matching, mismatching or inrelevent verbal content (Experiment 1) and emnotional prosody (Experiment 2). Among the autistic group,15 children with autism also took part in recognizing the emotion in social vedio with paired matching, mismatching, netrual prosody and silent treatment.Experiment 1 finds that verbal cues play an important role in autistic children’semotion recognition. Experiment 2 finds that emotion prosody also significantlly influence autistic children’s judgement about facial expression. Also, children with autism are less capable to recognize basic emotions in Experiment 1 and 2, when compared with control group. Experiment 2 and 3 find that autistic children give different responses to positive and negative emotions.The results of this study imply that the verbal content and emotion prosody in speech play a crucial role in recognizing emotions. The mismachied verbal content and emotional prosody can interfer autistic children’s judgement about emotion. Based on these result this dissertation discussed the theories about the deficits in emotion recognition in children with autism, and proposed several advice on education and emotion intervention for autistic children. |
