Familiar Face Recognition in Children with Autism: The Differential use of Inner and Outer Face Parts |
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Authors: | Rebecca Wilson Olivier Pascalis Mark Blades |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK |
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Abstract: | We investigated whether children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) have a deficit in recognising familiar faces. Children
with ASD were given a forced choice familiar face recognition task with three conditions: full faces, inner face parts and
outer face parts. Control groups were children with developmental delay (DD) and typically developing (TD) children. Children
with ASD and children with DD recognised slightly fewer faces than did TD children, but there was no ASD-specific deficit.
All groups displayed the same pattern of face part superiority: full-face superiority over inner face, and inner face superiority
over outer face. Therefore, the pattern of familiar face recognition by children with ASD was similar to the pattern found
in other children. |
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Keywords: | Autism Children Familiar face Part face |
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