Emotion specificity in mental retardation.

摘要: The emotion-specificity hypothesis states that mental retardation is associated with deficits in decoding facially expressed emotions cannot be fully accounted for by MA. Research has demonstrated repeatedly subjects do not perform as well on emotion recognition tasks control but whether those performance are specific to affective cues. was tested further three groups of 16 subjects: adults mild moderate retardation, similar age without and children matched (MA). Subjects completed the Facial Discrimination Task, which two subtasks consisting 40 monochrome facial photographs, rated stimuli scales ranging from happy sad or young old. Results supported hypothesis: retarded group significantly less accurate task than were both groups. On adult nonretarded child group.