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Impaired face processing in autism: Fact or artifact?

Jemel, Boutheina, Mottron, Laurent, Dawson, Michelle·2006·Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

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Within the last 10 years, there has been an upsurge of interest in face processing abilities in autism which has generated a proliferation of new empirical demonstrations employing a variety of measuring techniques. Observably atypical social behaviors early in the development of children with autism have led to the contention that autism is a condition where the processing of social information, particularly faces, is impaired. While several empirical sources of evidence lend support to this hypothesis, others suggest that there are conditions under which autistic individuals do not differ from typically developing persons. The present paper reviews this bulk of empirical evidence, and concludes that the versatility and abilities of face processing in persons with autism have been underestimated.

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  • The scientific evidence for difficulties in interpretation of facial expressions in ASD is remarkably mixed.

    “the scientific evidence for this difficulty is again remarkably mixed”

    From Vision in autism spectrum disorders (2009) · cites this paper as Jemel et al., 2006

  • Previous work on facial expression tasks found that ASD groups were not impaired relative to VMA-matched controls.

    “This finding echoes previous work on facial expression tasks, where ASD groups were found not to be impaired relative to VMA-matched controls (e.g.Braverman et al., 1989;Ozonoff et al., 2000;discussed further in Jemel et al., 2006).”

    From Vision in autism spectrum disorders (2009) · cites this paper as Jemel et al., 2006

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Authors
Jemel, B., Mottron, L., & Dawson, M.
Affiliations
Hôpital Rivière-des-Prairies (CA)
Corresponding author
Jemel, Boutheina
Venue
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Published
2006-01
Volume
36
Issue
1
Pages
91-106
ISSN
  • 0162-3257 (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-3432
OpenAlex
W2035092817
Cited by
246
References
163
Citations by year
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FWCI
1.28
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
Keywords
autism spectrum disorder, face processing, face recognition (cognition), social cognition, social information processing, developmental differences, typically developing individuals
MeSH terms
Autistic Disorder, Brain, Evoked Potentials, Face, Humans, Perceptual Disorders, Magnetoencephalography

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