Face Perception in Children with Autism and Asperger's Syndrome

Davies, Susan; Bishop, Dorothy; Manstead, Antony Stephen Reid; Tantam, Digby

doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.1994.tb01808.x

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“…In line with this, data from Miyashita's study (1988) indicated that autistic children recognized schematic face stimuli by relying on the facial features only. The same conclusion was drawn when using photographs of faces (Davies, Bishop, Manstead, & Tantam, 1994;Hobson et al, 1988;Kracke, 1994). More recently, a study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) demonstrated that individuals with autistic spectrum disorders, contrary to normal controls, exhibited a pattern of brain activity during face discrimination that is typical of object perception and consistent with feature-based strategies (Schultz et al, 2000).…”

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Spatial Frequency and Face Processing in Children with Autism and Asperger Syndrome

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J Autism Dev Disord

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confidence: 61%

Spatial Frequency and Face Processing in Children with Autism and Asperger Syndrome

Deruelle

Rondan

Gepner

et al. 2004

J Autism Dev Disord

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“…Similarly, Blair et al 2002 found that compared to age and verbal IQ matched controls, a group of adults with ASD showed poor face recognition memory, but normal recognition memory for buildings and leaves [109]. In contrast, a number of other studies have found visual performance deficits in ASD that were generalized to non-face stimuli, including sorting of geometric shapes [110] and memory for non-social stimuli, when compared to controls who are matched for other non-verbal abilities [111,112]. These varied findings may reflect the heterogeneity of ASD or of the choice of controls, non-face objects or tasks.…”

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Autism and the development of face processing

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2006

Clinical Neuroscience Research

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Autism is a pervasive developmental condition, characterized by impairments in non-verbal communication, social relationships and stereotypical patterns of behavior. A large body of evidence suggests that several aspects of face processing are impaired in autism, including anomalies in gaze processing, memory for facial identity and recognition of facial expressions of emotion. In search of neural markers of anomalous face processing in autism, much interest has focused on a network of brain regions that are implicated in social cognition and face processing. In this review, we will focus on three such regions, namely the STS for its role in processing gaze and facial movements, the FFA in face detection and identification and the amygdala in processing facial expressions of emotion. Much evidence suggests that a better understanding of the normal development of these specialized regions is essential for discovering the neural bases of face processing anomalies in autism. Thus, we will also examine the available literature on the normal development of face processing. Key unknowns in this research area are the neuro-developmental processes, the role of experience and the interactions among components of the face processing system in shaping each of the specialized regions for processing faces during normal development and in autism. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease.

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“…At the same time, individuals with autism appear to be limited in their ability to derive organized wholes from perceptual parts, which has been linked to their limited use of gestalt grouping heuristics [Brosnan, Scott, Fox, & Pye, 2004], the failure to process inter-element relationships [Behrmann et al, 2006], and/or the failure to consider the entire visual context [Happé, 1996]. Several studies have argued that this focus on local features is specifically detrimental to face recognition processes [Boucher & Lewis, 1992;Davies, Bishop, Manstead, & Tantam, 1994;Hobson, Ouston, & Lee, 1988;Joseph & Tanaka, 2003;Klin et al, 2002;Lahaie et al, 2006]. This atypical sensitivity to local elements has been addressed in two theoretical frameworks.…”

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Missing the big picture: impaired development of global shape processing in autism

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Individuals with autism exhibit hypersensitivity to local elements of the input, which may interfere with the ability to group visual elements perceptually. We investigated the development of perceptual grouping abilities in highfunctioning individuals with autism (HFA) across a wide age range (8-30 years) using a classic compound letter global/ local (GL) task and a more fine-grained microgenetic prime paradigm (MPP), including both few-and many-element hierarchical displays. In the GL task, contrary to the typically developing (TD) controls, HFA participants did not develop an increasing sensitivity to the global information with age. In the MPP, like the TD controls, individuals with autism at all three age groups evinced a bias to individuate the few-element displays. However, contrary to the TD controls, the HFA group failed to show age-related improvements in the ability to encode the global shape of the many-element displays. In fact, across the age range, the HFA group was consistently faster than the TD controls at perceiving the local elements in these displays. These results indicate that in autism the full process of garnering shape information from perceptual grouping, which is essential for the ability to do fast and efficient object recognition and identification, never matures, and this is especially evident in adolescence when this ability begins to improve in TD individuals. The atypical development of these perceptual organizational abilities may disrupt processing of visually presented objects, which may, in turn, fundamentally impede the development of major aspects of the social and emotional behaviors in individuals with autism.

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Face Perception in Children with Autism and Asperger's Syndrome

Cited by 255 publications

References 40 publications

Spatial Frequency and Face Processing in Children with Autism and Asperger Syndrome

Spatial Frequency and Face Processing in Children with Autism and Asperger Syndrome

Autism and the development of face processing

Missing the big picture: impaired development of global shape processing in autism

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