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Impaired Face Processing in Autism: Fact or Artifact?
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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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“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).”
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Metadata
- 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
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- 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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