Abstract or Introduction
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder, characterised by social, imaginative and communicative impairments with unusual/restricted behaviours. One such impairment is in the ability to process faces. Face processing is essential for one’s social development. It provides vital information, with a core set of facial expressions universally recognised. Research has shown that individuals with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) process faces; they have impaired emotional recognition and abnormal eye fixation. They use different strategies from typically developing (TD) individuals, such as featural processing. Some believe there is a neural basis for this problem; others argue that differences in methodology of testing produce different results. This essay outlines some of these arguments and discusses the nature of face processing impairment in autism.
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- Sanum Ghafoor (Author), 2014, The Nature of Face Processing Impairment in Autism, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/377437
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