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Production of Non-Facial Communication

RDoC Classification

Domain: Social Processes > Construct: Social Communication

Description

The capacity to express social and emotional information based on modalities other than facial expression, including non-verbal gestures, affective prosody, distress calling, cooing, etc.

Circuits

R-IFG-RSTGSongbird circuits

Behavior

Crying/laughingGestural/postural expressionsInteractive playResponse to distress/separation distressSpeech (affective) prosodyVocalizations

Self-Report

Social Responsiveness Scale

Paradigms

Multimodal Social Paradigms