Do Autistics Have a Generalized Face Processing Deficit?
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Neuroscience
- Vol. 77 (1-2) , 1-10
- https://doi.org/10.3109/00207459408986014
Abstract
The study presents results from a clinical test battery (Bruyer & Schweich, 1991; Schweich & Bruyer, 1993) that is used to study components in the face recognition system of autistic children. The results of the autisties are compared with the performance of two age groups of normal children (7-10 years, 12-16 years) and an adult control group. Autistic subjects, like young children, make more errors on a task in which they have to match facial features in the context of a complete face but not when the features are presented in isolation or in a simplified facial context. Finally, the sensitivity of the battery for clinical populations other than prosopagnosics is discussed.Keywords
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