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Specific impairment of face processing abilities in children with autism spectrum disorder using the Let’s Face It! Skills Battery

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Author	Wolf, Julie M. Tanaka, James W. Klaiman, Cheryl Cockburn, Jeff Herlihy, Lauren Brown, Carla South, Mikle Mcpartland, James Kaiser, Martha D. Phillips, Rebecca Schultz, Robert T.
Abstract	Although it has been well established that individuals with autism exhibit difficulties in their face recognition abilities, it has been debated whether this deficit reflects a category-specific impairment of faces or a general perceptual bias toward the local level information in a stimulus. In this study, the Let’s Face It! Skills Battery (Tanaka & Schultz, 2008) of developmental face and object processing measures was administered to a large sample of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and typical developing (TD) children. The main finding was that when matched for age and IQ, individuals with ASD were selectively impaired in their ability to recognize faces across changes in orientation, expression and featural information. In a face discrimination task, ASD participants showed a preserved ability to discriminate featural and configural information in the mouth region of a face, but were compromised in their ability to discriminate featural and configural information in the eyes. On object processing tasks, ASD participants demonstrated a normal ability to recognize automobiles across changes in orientation and a superior ability to discriminate featural and configural information in houses. These findings indicate that the face processing deficits in ASD are not due to a local processing bias, but reflect a category-specific impairment of faces characterized by a failure to form view-invariant face representations and discriminate information in the eye region of the face.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aur.56
Ending Page	340
Page Count	12
Starting Page	329
File Format	PDF
ISSN	19393792
e-ISSN	19393806
Journal	Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research
Issue Number	6
Volume Number	1
Language	English
Publisher Date	2008-12-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Medicine(all) Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Neuroscience Neurology (clinical) Genetics (clinical)

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