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JOURNAL OF AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
Volume 41, Issue 10, Pages 1429-1435Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-010-1150-4
Keywords
Autism; ASD; Face processing; Visual recognition; Eye-tracking
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- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie
- Divn Of Social and Economic Sciences [0835767] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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This study used eyetracking to investigate the ability of young children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) to recognize social (faces) and nonsocial (simple objects and complex block patterns) stimuli using the visual paired comparison (VPC) paradigm. Typically developing (TD) children showed evidence for recognition of faces and simple objects, but not complex block patterns. Children with ASD were successful at recognizing novel objects and block patterns, but showed no evidence for face recognition. These findings suggest that young children with ASD have specific impairments in face recognition, and that they may have advantage over TD controls when processing complex nonsocial stimuli.
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