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Breur, Ilse Eveline (2012)

In hoeverre bestaat er een relatie tussen gezichtsexpressie herkenning en Theory of Mind bij kinderen met een autismespectrumstoornis?

Master thesis | Education and Child Studies (MSc)

This study addressed the relationship between emotion recognition and Theory of Mind (ToM) in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Emotion recognition was measured with the Eprime Emotion Recognition. ToM was measured with the Social Cognitive Skills Test. The ASD-group consisted of 28 children between 9 – 16,9 years old (M = 11,8). The control group consisted of 85 children between the age of 9 – 14,2 (M = 10,6). Significant correlations were found between sadness and ToM in both groups. A possible explanation is that emotions have shared brain structures, but also their ‘own’ pathways, with the exception of sadness. It might be that sadness mostly uses shared brain structures, which also play a considerable role in ToM.

autismespectrumstoornis

Theory of Mind

gezichtsexpressie herkenning

emotion recognition

autism

Author

Breur, Ilse Eveline

Faculty

Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences

Supervisors

Zantinge, G.M.

ECTS Credits

20

Language

nl