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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Main Authors: Line eGebauer, Joshua eSkewes, Gitte eWestphael, Pamela eHeaton, Peter eVuust
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2014.00192/full