Face Processing and Facial Emotion Recognition in Adults With Down Syndrome

Title : Facial Emotion Recognition and Alexithymia in Adults with

Vocal Parameters of Adults with Down Syndrome in Zahedan /Iran

Background & Aims: Previous studies have indicated significant differences in vocal parameters between children with Down syndrome and normal children, but there are challenges about these differences. In this study vocal parameters and Maximum Phonation Time (MPT) in adults with Down syndrome have been investigated. Method: This cross-sectional and analytic study was performed on 22 adults wit...

Face-to-face emotion interaction studies in Down syndrome infants

Infants with Down syndrome constitute an ideal population for analysing the development of emotional expression from the Ž rst months of life, due basically to the fact that this chromosomal alteration is identiŽ able from birth and results in well-known difŽ culties of cognitive development and in basic learning processes. Taking into account the functional aspects of facial expression during ...

Differential outcomes training improves face recognition memory in children and in adults with Down syndrome.

Previous studies have demonstrated that the differential outcomes procedure (DOP), which involves paring a unique reward with a specific stimulus, enhances discriminative learning and memory performance in several populations. The present study aimed to further investigate whether this procedure would improve face recognition memory in 5- and 7-year-old children (Experiment 1) and adults with D...

Emotion Recognition in Adolescents with Down Syndrome: A Nonverbal Approach

Several studies have reported that persons with Down syndrome (DS) have difficulties recognizing emotions; however, there is insufficient research to prove that a deficit of emotional knowledge exists in DS. The aim of this study was to evaluate the recognition of emotional facial expressions without making use of emotional vocabulary, given the language problems known to be associated with thi...