Su L, Lin Z, Li Y, Wang X, Lin Z, Dong L, Wei L. Own-Age Effects in a Face-Emotion Recognition Intervention for Children With ASD--Evidence From Eye Movements.
Psychol Res Behav Manag 2023;
16:4479-4490. [PMID:
37942440 PMCID:
PMC10629357 DOI:
10.2147/prbm.s427006]
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Abstract
Background
The own-age effect is the phenomenon in which individuals perceive and recognize faces of their own age better than others in terms of cognitive processing. Previous eye movement studies on children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have reported that children with ASD have an attentional bias toward own-age faces and own-age scenes.
Methods
The present study used own-age faces as the intervention material and examined the application of the own-age effect in the emotional recognition of faces in ASD. The length of the intervention was 12 weeks, and 2 sessions were conducted each week.
Results
The results revealed that the own-age face intervention group gazed at children's faces significantly more often than before the intervention, gazed at children's angry faces significantly longer than before the intervention, and gazed at adults' happy faces significantly longer and more often than before the intervention; the other-age faces intervention group did not differ significantly from the preintervention in gazing at children's and adults' faces after the intervention.
Conclusion
The results suggest that own-age faces as teaching materials can better promote the emotion recognition ability of children with ASD than other-age faces.
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