Face perception in children with autism and Asperger's syndrome

Davies, S., Bishop, D., Manstead, Antony Stephen Reid ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7540-2096 and Tantam, D. 1994. Face perception in children with autism and Asperger's syndrome. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines 35 (6) , pp. 1033-1057.

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Abstract

Children with diagnoses of either autism or Asperger's syndrome were matched on measures of verbal mental age with nonautistic control children. They were tested on their abilities to process both facial and nonfacial stimuli. There were no significant differences between the low ability autistic and control groups, but the high ability autistic and Asperger's children performed significantly worse than controls across all tests. Group averages masked substantial individual variation. The results are seen as indicating a general perceptual deficit that is not specific to faces or emotions. This appears to be a common correlate of autism and Asperger's syndrome, rather than a core symptom.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2022 10:32
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/44749

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