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Karine Morin^1,2, Jacalyn Guy^1,3, Claudine Habak⁴

¹Perceptual Neuroscience Lab (PNLab) for Autism and Development, Montréal, Canada.

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Summary

Individuals with autism showed decreased face identity discrimination when viewpoint changed, suggesting local visual analysis impacts face perception. This highlights a perceptual difference in how autistic individuals process facial information.

Keywords:

autism spectrum disorder face perception global local synthetic faces viewpoint change

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Neuroscience
Psychology
Developmental Science

Background:

Face perception is a key social cognition skill.
Atypical face perception is documented in autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
The origins of these differences, particularly the role of visual analysis strategies, remain debated.

Purpose of the Study:

To test the hypothesis that a locally oriented visual analysis in autism affects face perception.
To investigate if reduced reliance on local cues impacts face identity discrimination.

Main Methods:

Assessed face identity discrimination in 28 individuals with autism and 30 neurotypical controls.
Used synthetic faces with and without viewpoint changes (front vs. 20° side).
Employed a temporal forced choice match-to-sample paradigm to obtain discrimination thresholds.

Main Results:

An interaction between group and condition was observed.
Individuals with autism showed significantly decreased performance only in the viewpoint change condition.
Neurotypical participants' performance was less affected by viewpoint changes.

Conclusions:

Face identity discrimination in autism is impaired when local cues are minimized or integrative analysis is increased.
Results support a perceptual contribution to atypical face perception in autism.
Visual processing differences, specifically local vs. global analysis, may underlie face perception challenges in ASD.