The autistic child's recognition of age- and sex-related characteristics of people

Hobson, R. Peter

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“…In summary, fra(X) males, irrespective of their diagnosis of autism, showed an apparent sensitivity to the cueing function of social gaze as long as that gaze was not returned by their parent-Autistic children are known to have problems in responding to subtle social cues (DSM-III-R, 1987;Hobson, 1987) but our data suggest that variability in this sensitivity may depend on etiology. It is possible, therefore, that variability in the reported occurrence of gaze avoidance in autistic children across studies (e.g.…”

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confidence: 88%

Parent‐Child Dyadic Gaze Patterns in Fragile X Males and in Non‐fragile X Males with Autistic Disorder

Cohen

Vietze

Sudhalter

et al. 1989

Child Psychology Psychiatry

106

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Parent-child dyadic gaze patterns were examined in fragile X [fra(X)] males and in non-fra(X) autistic males across three age groups--early childhood, middle childhood and adolescence. Absolute probabilities of social gaze did not significantly differ across diagnostic groups. Event lag sequential analyses indicated that fra(X) males were sensitive to social gaze initiation by their parents but found eye contact aversive. Non-fra(X) autistic males, by contrast, were insensitive to parent-initiated social gaze, and did not find eye contact aversive. Implications for research on the social characteristics of fra(X) and autistic children are discussed.

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confidence: 88%

Parent‐Child Dyadic Gaze Patterns in Fragile X Males and in Non‐fragile X Males with Autistic Disorder

Cohen

Vietze

Sudhalter

et al. 1989

Child Psychology Psychiatry

106

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“…The perceptual difficulties also affect the perception of the affect of faces (Hobson, 1986;Hobson, Ouston, & Lee, 1988), the perception of direction of gaze (Jolliffe & BaronCohen, 1997) and sometimes even the perception of gender (Hobson, 1987;Njiokiktjien et al, 2001). The same is true for adults with autism, although the impairment is apparently less severe in older individuals and in more cognitively able individuals (Boucher & Lewis, 1992).…”

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Configural processing in autism and its relationship to face processing

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Studies of the perceptual performance of individuals with autism have focused, to a large extent, on two domains of visual behavior, one associated with face processing and the other associated with global or holistic processing. Whether autistic individuals differ from neurotypical individuals in these domains is debatable and, moreover, the relationship between the behaviors in these two domains remains unclear. We first compared the face processing ability of 14 adult individuals with autism with that of neurotypical controls and showed that the autistic individuals were slowed in their speed of face discrimination. We then showed that the two groups differed in their ability to derive the global whole in two different tasks, one using hierarchical compound letters and the other using a microgenetic primed matching task with geometric shapes, with the autistic group showing a bias in favor of local information. A significant correlation was also observed between performance on the face task and the configural tasks. We then confirmed the prediction that the ability to derive the global whole is not only critical for faces but also for other objects as well, as the autistic individuals performed more slowly than the control group in discriminating between objects. Taken together, the results suggest that the bias for local processing seen in autistic individuals might have an adverse impact on their ability to process faces and objects.

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“…Deficits in the autistic child's concept of other people have been found, from the understanding of human 344 Sally Ozonod el al. characteristics (Hobson, 1987), to the ability to appreciate the subjective experiences and intentions of others (Baron-Cohen, Leslie & Frith, 1985, 1986. Processing cues with social or affective content also appears particularly difficult for the autistic child (Braverman, 1986;Braverman ^/: a/., 1989;Hobson, 1982Hobson, , 1986aHobson, , b, 1987Sigman, Ungerer, Mundy & Sherman, 1987;Weeks & Hobson, 1987).…”

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Are there Emotion Perception Deficits in Young Autistic Children?

Ozonoff

Pennington

Rogers

1990

Child Psychology Psychiatry

301

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Two studies were conducted to test the hypothesis that young autistic children are selectively impaired on emotion perception tasks. Results supporting the hypothesis were found on two of the four measures when the controls used were matched on non-verbal mental age; performance on the other tasks was consistent with global deficits across affective and non-affective domains, rather than specific deficits in emotion perception. When the autistic group was compared with controls matched on verbal mental age, no group differences were found. These results suggest that emotion perception impairment is not likely to be the primary underlying deficit in autism. Additional areas for further investigation were suggested.

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The autistic child's recognition of age- and sex-related characteristics of people

Cited by 43 publications

References 22 publications

Parent‐Child Dyadic Gaze Patterns in Fragile X Males and in Non‐fragile X Males with Autistic Disorder

Parent‐Child Dyadic Gaze Patterns in Fragile X Males and in Non‐fragile X Males with Autistic Disorder

Configural processing in autism and its relationship to face processing

Are there Emotion Perception Deficits in Young Autistic Children?

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