Journal article
Face memory and face perception in autism
- Abstract:
- It has been argued that autistic individuals have difficulties with face memory but typical face perception. However, only one previous study has examined both face memory and face perception in the same individuals, and this study was conducted with a small group of autistic children. Here, face recognition was examined with a group of autistic adults using two face perception tasks (including one designed to avoid a neurotypical bias) and a standard test of face memory. Self-reported face recognition difficulties in everyday life were also recorded. The group of adults with autism scored lower than a matched neurotypical control group on all face tasks and reported more problems with face recognition in everyday life. On the whole, results suggest difficulties with both face perception and face memory in autistic adults, although it should be noted that a wide range of scores were recorded from the autistic individuals, with some scoring in the neurotypical range.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1177/13623613211027685
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- Publisher:
- SAGE Publications
- Journal:
- Autism More from this journal
- Volume:
- 26
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 276-280
- Publication date:
- 2021-06-23
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-05-29
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1461-7005
- ISSN:
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1362-3613
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English
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1179411
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pubs:1179411
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2021-05-29
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- Stantić et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
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- © The Authors 2021. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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