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Dawson, G., Webb, S. J., Wijsman, E. S. G., Estes, A., Munson, J., & Faja, S. (2005). Neurocognitive and Electrophysiological Evidence of Altered Face Processing of Children with Autism: Implications for a Model of Abnormal Development of Social Brain Circuitry in Autism. Development and Psychopathology, 17, 679-697.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0954579405050327

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• TITLE: Human Face Recognition, Information Processing and Social Behavior in Children with Autism

  AUTHORS: Pascale Planche

  KEYWORDS: Asperger’s Syndrome, High-Functioning Autism, Face Recognition, Information Processing, Social Impairment

  JOURNAL NAME: Psychology, Vol.5 No.11, August 25, 2014

  ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to investigate whether children with high-functioning autism (HFA) and Asperger’s syndrome (AS) can be differentiated from each other and from typically developing children in ability to recognize a human face. The present study included 69 participants: children with autism (high-functioning autism or Asperger’s syndrome, n = 15 per group) and a control group of 39 typically developing children. It involved a face recognition task included in the NEPSY scale. Results showed that the autism groups performed poorer than the typically developing group, but no difference was found between high-functioning and Asperger groups. Both the information processing peculiarities of children with autism and their (interactional and communicative) social impairments could explain their difficulty to recognize human faces.