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ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2025

Acoustic features of emotional expression in 5-year-old children with autism spectrum disorder.

Daichi Okuizumi, Kazunori Terada, Azusa Ishii, Yoshimasa Ohmoto, Hitomi Shimizu, Akira Imamura, Ryoichiro Iwanaga, Hirokazu Kumazaki

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Article in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Daichi OkuizumiDepartment of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
Kazunori TeradaFaculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Computer Engineering, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan.
Azusa IshiiDepartment of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
Yoshimasa OhmotoFaculty of Informatics, Department of Behavior Informatics, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan.
Hitomi ShimizuDepartment of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
Akira ImamuraUnit of Medical Science, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.
Ryoichiro IwanagaUnit of Medical Science, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.
Hirokazu KumazakiDepartment of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.

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Abstract

Background: Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) exhibit poor prosodic performance, which is associated with their poor language and social skills. Prosody serves important communicative functions not only at grammatical and pragmatic levels but also at the emotional level. This study investigates the acoustic features of emotional expression in children with ASD compared to typically developing (TD) children, within a narrowly defined age cohort restricted to 5-year-old participants. Methods: Nineteen children with ASD and 19 TD children, aged 5 years, participated in this study. We investigated the differences in the fundamental frequency (f0) ranges in three emotional expression settings (i.e., neutral, liking, and disliking). Results: The f0 range in the neutral setting was greater in children with ASD than in TD children ( Discussion: By focusing on the relationship between acoustic features and emotional expression setting and by restricting the age of participants, our results demonstrate the trend of acoustic features in children with ASD. To deepen the understanding of the relationship between f0 and emotion, future studies investigating prosody in a range of emotional expression settings are needed.

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acoustic featureautism spectrum disorderemotionF0prosody

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