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Investigations of face expertise in the social developmental disorders

Barton, Jason J.S., Hefter, Rebecca L., Cherkasova, Mariya V., Manoach, Dara S.·2007·Neurology
DOI 10.1212/01.wnl.0000267842.85646.f2
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BACKGROUND: Patients with social developmental disorders (SDD), also known as autism spectrum disorders, may have impaired recognition of facial identity or facial expressions. OBJECTIVE: Our goal was to determine whether SDDs were characterized by loss of a perceptual mechanism responsible for face expertise, as current theories suggest that such a loss should be selective for upright faces, disproportionately affect the perception of facial configuration, and possibly be more severe in the eye region. METHOD: We tested a group of 24 adult patients with SDD with an oddity paradigm that required them to detect changes in facial configuration or feature color, in either the eyes or the mouth, in both upright and inverted faces. RESULTS: One group of subjects with SDD with normal famous face recognition had only a mild reduction in accuracy and a normal pattern of inversion effects. A second group of subjects with SDD with impaired famous face recognition had a severe reduction of accuracy. This deficit was not limited to upright faces. It affected the perception of feature configuration and feature color to a similar degree and both eye and mouth changes were discriminated poorly in upright faces. CONCLUSION: The impaired face recognition that is present in a subset of patients with social developmental disorders is accompanied by impaired face perception, and this impairment is not exclusive to upright faces, facial configuration, or the eye region. The reduced face processing skills in these subjects may be more consistent with recent computational models of face expertise than with classic dual-route hypotheses.

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  • Barton et al.'s (2007) data suggest that this variability may be due to a bimodal split in the ASD population between those that are quite capable in face identity processing tasks and those that are not.

    “Barton et al.'s (2007) data suggest that this variability may be due to a bimodal split in the ASD population between those that are quite capable in face identity processing tasks and those that are not.”

    From Vision in autism spectrum disorders (2009) · cites this paper as Barton et al. (2007)

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Authors
Barton, J. J. S., Hefter, R. L., Cherkasova, M. V., & Manoach, D. S.
Affiliations
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (US)
ORCID
Venue
Neurology
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Published
2007-08-28
Volume
69
Issue
9
Pages
860-870
ISSN
  • 0028-3878 (ISSN-L)
  • 1526-632X
DOI
10.1212/01.wnl.0000267842.85646.f2
OpenAlex
W2112991766
Cited by
29
References
84
Citations by year
2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 4 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 4
FWCI
1.00
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Neurology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH069898)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Face recognition and analysis
Keywords
face expertise, autism spectrum disorder, face recognition (cognition), face perception, inversion effect, famous face recognition, facial configuration, eye region, dual-route model
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Autistic Disorder, Brain, Face, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Neuropsychological Tests, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Perceptual Disorders, Photic Stimulation, Predictive Value of Tests

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