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  • Genetics

Background:

  • Face individual identity recognition is heritable and separate from intellectual ability.
  • Difficulties in face recognition are observed in autistic individuals and their families, potentially linked to oxytocin gene variations.
  • Developmental prosopagnosia affects 2-3% of the general population, but its prevalence in autism is unknown.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Estimate the prevalence of prosopagnosia in autistic adults without intellectual disability.
  • Characterize the cognitive aspects of impaired face recognition in autism.
  • Investigate links between face memory deficits and autism symptom severity, personality, and emotion recognition.

Main Methods:

  • Assessed 80 autistic adults using standardized tests and questionnaires.
  • Measured prevalence of prosopagnosia (impaired face identity recognition).
  • Examined associations with autism symptom severity, empathy, alexithymia, intelligence, and emotion recognition from eye region.

Main Results:

  • Over one-third of autistic participants exhibited prosopagnosia.
  • Face memory ability was not correlated with autism symptom severity, empathy, alexithymia, or general intelligence.
  • Face identity recognition was linked to mental state recognition from the eyes, but only in autistic individuals with prosopagnosia, independent of basic face perception.

Conclusions:

  • Impaired face recognition may serve as an endophenotype for autism.
  • Face memory testing could help subgroup autistic individuals genetically.
  • Findings may inform the development of autism animal models.