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Julia F Krebs1, Ajanta Biswas, Olivier Pascalis
1Department of Developmental Psychology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, FB 06, Otto-Behaghel-Street 10/F1, 35394, Giessen, Germany. Julia.Krebs@psychol.uni-giessen.de
Abstract:
The current study investigated if deficits in processing emotional expression affect facial identity processing and vice versa in children with autism spectrum disorder. Children with autism and IQ and age matched typically developing children classified faces either by emotional expression, thereby ignoring facial identity or by facial identity disregarding emotional expression. Typically developing children processed facial identity independently from facial expressions but processed facial expressions in interaction with identity. Children with autism processed both facial expression and identity independently of each other. They selectively directed their attention to one facial parameter despite variations in the other. Results indicate that there is no interaction in processing facial identity and emotional expression in autism spectrum disorder.
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