Face processing in children with autism spectrum disorder: Independent or interactive processing of facial identity and facial expression?

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 796-804

  Krebs, Julia F ^a   Biswas, Ajanta ^b   Pascalis, Olivier ^b,d   Kamp Becker, Inge ^c   Remschmidt, Helmuth ^c   Schwarzer, Gudrun ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE MENDÈS FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

Autism; Emotional expression; Face processing; Facial identity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTISM; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACE PROCESSING; FACE PROFILE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IDENTITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ADOLESCENT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 79956225740     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-010-1098-4     Document Type: Article

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