Emotion Recognition as a Real Strength in Williams Syndrome: Evidence From a Dynamic Non-verbal Task
The hypersocial profile characterizing individuals with Williams syndrome (WS), and particularly their attraction to human faces and their desire to form relationships with other people, could favor the development of their emotion recognition capacities. This study seeks to better understand the de...
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| description | The hypersocial profile characterizing individuals with Williams syndrome (WS), and particularly their attraction to human faces and their desire to form relationships with other people, could favor the development of their emotion recognition capacities. This study seeks to better understand the development of emotion recognition capacities in WS. The ability to recognize six emotions was assessed in 15 participants with WS. Their performance was compared to that of 15 participants with Down syndrome (DS) and 15 typically developing (TD) children of the same non-verbal developmental age, as assessed with Raven’s Colored Progressive Matrices (RCPM; Raven et al., 1998). The analysis of the three groups’ results revealed that the participants with WS performed better than the participants with DS and also than the TD children. Individuals with WS performed at a similar level to TD participants in terms of recognizing different types of emotions. The study of development trajectories confirmed that the participants with WS presented the same development profile as the TD participants. These results seem to indicate that the recognition of emotional facial expressions constitutes a real strength in people with WS. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-50804dc8b6a448b79d58857fe99d3a222022-12-22T02:06:19ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782018-04-01910.3389/fpsyg.2018.00463290415Emotion Recognition as a Real Strength in Williams Syndrome: Evidence From a Dynamic Non-verbal TaskLaure Ibernon0Claire Touchet1Régis Pochon2Centre de Recherche en Psychologie: Cognition, Psychisme et Organisations (EA 7273), Département de Psychologie, UFR Sciences Humaines et Sociales et Philosophie, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, FranceCentre de Recherche en Psychologie: Cognition, Psychisme et Organisations (EA 7273), Département de Psychologie, UFR Sciences Humaines et Sociales et Philosophie, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, FranceLaboratoire de Psychologie Cognition, Santé, Société (EA 6291), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, FranceThe hypersocial profile characterizing individuals with Williams syndrome (WS), and particularly their attraction to human faces and their desire to form relationships with other people, could favor the development of their emotion recognition capacities. This study seeks to better understand the development of emotion recognition capacities in WS. The ability to recognize six emotions was assessed in 15 participants with WS. Their performance was compared to that of 15 participants with Down syndrome (DS) and 15 typically developing (TD) children of the same non-verbal developmental age, as assessed with Raven’s Colored Progressive Matrices (RCPM; Raven et al., 1998). The analysis of the three groups’ results revealed that the participants with WS performed better than the participants with DS and also than the TD children. Individuals with WS performed at a similar level to TD participants in terms of recognizing different types of emotions. The study of development trajectories confirmed that the participants with WS presented the same development profile as the TD participants. These results seem to indicate that the recognition of emotional facial expressions constitutes a real strength in people with WS.http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00463/fullWilliams syndromeDown syndromeemotion recognitiondevelopmental trajectorieshypersociability |
| spellingShingle | Laure Ibernon Claire Touchet Régis Pochon Emotion Recognition as a Real Strength in Williams Syndrome: Evidence From a Dynamic Non-verbal Task Frontiers in Psychology Williams syndrome Down syndrome emotion recognition developmental trajectories hypersociability |
| title | Emotion Recognition as a Real Strength in Williams Syndrome: Evidence From a Dynamic Non-verbal Task |
| title_full | Emotion Recognition as a Real Strength in Williams Syndrome: Evidence From a Dynamic Non-verbal Task |
| title_fullStr | Emotion Recognition as a Real Strength in Williams Syndrome: Evidence From a Dynamic Non-verbal Task |
| title_full_unstemmed | Emotion Recognition as a Real Strength in Williams Syndrome: Evidence From a Dynamic Non-verbal Task |
| title_short | Emotion Recognition as a Real Strength in Williams Syndrome: Evidence From a Dynamic Non-verbal Task |
| title_sort | emotion recognition as a real strength in williams syndrome evidence from a dynamic non verbal task |
| topic | Williams syndrome Down syndrome emotion recognition developmental trajectories hypersociability |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00463/full |
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