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JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY
Volume 42, Issue 6, Pages 705-717Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1469-7610.00767
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autistic disorder; face perception; social cognition; Turner's syndrome; visuospatial functioning; Williams syndrome
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Face recognition is often considered to be a modular (encapsulated) function, This annotation supports the proposal that faces are special, but suggests that their identification makes use of general-purpose cortical systems that are implicated in high-level vision and also in memory and learning more generally. These systems can be considered to function within two distinct cortical streams: a medial stream (for learning and salience of faces encountered) and a lateral stream (for distributed representations of visual properties and identities of faces). Function in the lateral stream, especially, may be critically dependent on the normal development of magnocellular vision. The relevance of face recognition anomalies in three developmental syndromes (Autism, Williams syndrome, and Turner syndrome) and the two-route model sketched above is considered.
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