The Effects of Autism and Alexithymia on Physiological and Verbal Responsiveness to Music

Autor/inn/en	Allen, Rory; Davis, Rob; Hill, Elisabeth
Titel	The Effects of Autism and Alexithymia on Physiological and Verbal Responsiveness to Music
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 43 (2013) 2, S.432-444 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-012-1587-8
Schlagwörter	Autism; Music; Physiology; Responses; Verbal Communication; Emotional Response; Hypothesis Testing; Adults; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Comparative Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Musik; Physiologie; Emotionales Verhalten; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest
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. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10