Spatial frequency and face processing in children with autism and Asperger syndrome
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Two experiments were designed to investigate possible abnormal face processing strategies in children with autistic spectrum disorders. A group of 11 children with autism was compared to two groups of normally developing children matched on verbal mental age and on chronological age. In the first experiment, participants had to recognize faces on the basis of identity, emotion, gaze direction, gender, and lip reading. All aspects of face processing, except for identity matching, were deficient in the autistic population compared with controls. In the second study, children had to match faces on either high-(i.e., local facial features) or low-spatial frequency information (i.e., global configuration of faces). Contrary to the control subjects, children with autism showed better performance when using high rather than low spatial frequency, confirming face-processing peculiarities in this population.
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A number of studies suggest poorer performance of ASD groups in gender discrimination tasks based on faces.
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From Vision in autism spectrum disorders (2009) · cites this paper as Deruelle et al., 2004
Deruelle et al. (2004) found that participants with ASD made more errors in a face matching task when presented with low-pass-, rather than high-pass-filtered face stimuli.
“A final potential factor is suggested by Deruelle et al.'s (2004) result that participants with ASD made more errors in a face matching task when presented with low-pass-, rather than highpass-filtered face stimuli.”
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- Authors
- Deruelle, C., Rondan, C., Gepner, B., & Tardif, C.
- Affiliations
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Aix-Marseille Université (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Deruelle, Christine
- Venue
- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
- Published
- 2004-04
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 199-210
- ISSN
- 0162-3257 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-3432
- OpenAlex
- W2096033349
- Cited by
- 336
- References
- 68
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- FWCI
- 9.62
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hal.science
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Keywords
- autism spectrum disorder, Asperger syndrome, face processing, spatial frequency, face recognition (cognition), local versus global processing, facial emotion recognition, gaze direction, lip reading, children
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Autistic Disorder, Child, Child, Preschool, Face, Female, France, Humans, Male, Space Perception, Visual Perception, Asperger Syndrome, Recognition, Psychology
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