Atypical Development of Face and Greeble Recognition in Autism

Autor/inn/en	Scherf, K. Suzanne; Behrmann, Marlene; Minshew, Nancy; Luna, Beatriz
Titel	Atypical Development of Face and Greeble Recognition in Autism
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 49 (2008) 8, S.838-847 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0021-9630
DOI	10.1111/j.1469-7610.2008.01903.x
Schlagwörter	Autism; Novelty (Stimulus Dimension); Cognitive Processes; Nonverbal Communication; Visual Perception; Visual Discrimination; Classification; Children; Recognition (Psychology) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Child; Kind; Kinder; Recognition; Wiedererkennen
Abstract	Background: Impaired face processing is a widely documented deficit in autism. Although the origin of this deficit is unclear, several groups have suggested that a lack of perceptual expertise is contributory. We investigated whether individuals with autism develop expertise in visuoperceptual processing of faces and whether any deficiency in such processing is specific to faces, or extends to other objects, too. Method: Participants performed perceptual discrimination tasks, including a face inversion task and a classification-level task, which requires especially fine-grained discriminations, on three classes of stimuli: socially-laden faces, perceptually homogenous novel objects, greebles, and perceptually heterogeneous common objects. Results: We found that children with autism develop typical levels of expertise for recognition of common objects. However, they evince poorer recognition for perceptually homogenous objects, including faces and, most especially, greebles. Conclusions: Documenting the atypical recognition abilities for greebles in children with autism has provided an important insight into the potential origin of the relatively poor face recognition skills. Our findings suggest that, throughout development, individuals with autism have a generalized deficit in visuoperceptual processing that may interfere with their ability to undertake configural processing, and that this, in turn, adversely impacts their recognition of within-class perceptually homogenous objects. (As Provided).
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