Intact brain processing of musical emotions in autism spectrum disorder, but more cognitive load and arousal in happy versus sad music
Music is a potent source for eliciting emotions, but not everybody experience emotions in the same way. Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show difficulties with social and emotional cognition. Impairments in emotion recognition are widely studied in ASD, and have been associated with a...
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| author | Line eGebauer Line eGebauer Joshua eSkewes Gitte eWestphael Pamela eHeaton Peter eVuust Peter eVuust |
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| description | Music is a potent source for eliciting emotions, but not everybody experience emotions in the same way. Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show difficulties with social and emotional cognition. Impairments in emotion recognition are widely studied in ASD, and have been associated with atypical brain activation in response to emotional expressions in faces and speech. Whether these impairments and atypical brain responses generalize to other domains, such as emotional processing of music, is less clear. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we investigated neural correlates of emotion recognition in music in high-functioning adults with ASD and neurotypical adults. Both groups engaged similar neural networks during processing of emotional music, and individuals with ASD rated emotional music comparable to the group of neurotypical individuals. However, in the ASD group, increased activity in response to happy compared to sad music was observed in dorsolateral prefrontal regions and in the rolandic operculum/insula, and we propose that this reflects increased cognitive processing in response to emotional musical stimuli in this group. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-438dec6acb674f8d9a6cea16c21d6a012022-12-22T00:21:15ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Neuroscience1662-453X2014-07-01810.3389/fnins.2014.0019288483Intact brain processing of musical emotions in autism spectrum disorder, but more cognitive load and arousal in happy versus sad musicLine eGebauer0Line eGebauer1Joshua eSkewes2Gitte eWestphael3Pamela eHeaton4Peter eVuust5Peter eVuust6Aarhus UniversityAarhus UniversityAarhus UniversityAarhus UniversityGoldsmiths, University of LondonAarhus UniversityThe Royal Academy of MusicMusic is a potent source for eliciting emotions, but not everybody experience emotions in the same way. Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show difficulties with social and emotional cognition. Impairments in emotion recognition are widely studied in ASD, and have been associated with atypical brain activation in response to emotional expressions in faces and speech. Whether these impairments and atypical brain responses generalize to other domains, such as emotional processing of music, is less clear. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we investigated neural correlates of emotion recognition in music in high-functioning adults with ASD and neurotypical adults. Both groups engaged similar neural networks during processing of emotional music, and individuals with ASD rated emotional music comparable to the group of neurotypical individuals. However, in the ASD group, increased activity in response to happy compared to sad music was observed in dorsolateral prefrontal regions and in the rolandic operculum/insula, and we propose that this reflects increased cognitive processing in response to emotional musical stimuli in this group.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2014.00192/fullEmotionsMusicAutism Spectrum Disordersinsuladorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC)fMRI BOLD |
| spellingShingle | Line eGebauer Line eGebauer Joshua eSkewes Gitte eWestphael Pamela eHeaton Peter eVuust Peter eVuust Intact brain processing of musical emotions in autism spectrum disorder, but more cognitive load and arousal in happy versus sad music Frontiers in Neuroscience Emotions Music Autism Spectrum Disorders insula dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) fMRI BOLD |
| title | Intact brain processing of musical emotions in autism spectrum disorder, but more cognitive load and arousal in happy versus sad music |
| title_full | Intact brain processing of musical emotions in autism spectrum disorder, but more cognitive load and arousal in happy versus sad music |
| title_fullStr | Intact brain processing of musical emotions in autism spectrum disorder, but more cognitive load and arousal in happy versus sad music |
| title_full_unstemmed | Intact brain processing of musical emotions in autism spectrum disorder, but more cognitive load and arousal in happy versus sad music |
| title_short | Intact brain processing of musical emotions in autism spectrum disorder, but more cognitive load and arousal in happy versus sad music |
| title_sort | intact brain processing of musical emotions in autism spectrum disorder but more cognitive load and arousal in happy versus sad music |
| topic | Emotions Music Autism Spectrum Disorders insula dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) fMRI BOLD |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2014.00192/full |
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