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Face Recognition and Visual Search Strategies in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Amending and Extending a Recent Review by Weigelt et al.
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44 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Neural dysfunctions associated with atypical memory in ASD: an ALE meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Gaze and social functioning associations in autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2022Pooled it
- Autism Spectrum Disorder and Clinical High Risk for Psychosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022Pooled it
- A quantitative meta-analysis of face recognition deficits in autism: 40 years of research.Psychological bulletin · 2021Pooled it
- Self-other discrimination in face recognition depending on personal familiarity: investigating a sample consisting of Japanese and Han Chinese women.Psychological research · 2026Article
- Neural oscillatory dynamics reveal altered top-down and integrative mechanisms during face processing in autistic children and unaffected siblings of autistic children.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2026Article
- Eye-Tracking as a Screening Tool in the Early Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Neural oscillatory dynamics reveal altered top-down and integrative mechanisms during face processing in autistic children and unaffected siblings of autistic children.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Alterations in looking at face-pareidolia images in autism.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Disentangling the perceptual underpinnings of autism: Evidence from a face aftereffects experiment.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Article
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- Sex modulation of faces prediction error in the autistic brain.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Face Recognition Characteristics in Patients with Age-Related Macular Degeneration Determined Using a Virtual Reality Headset with Eye Tracking.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Autistic adults exhibit holistic face processing: evidence from inversion and composite face effects.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Independent measurement of face perception, face matching, and face memory reveals impairments in face perception and memory, but not matching, in autism.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2023Article
- Lack of action-sentence compatibility effect in non-clinical individuals with high autistic traits.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Characteristic fixation biases in Super-Recognizers.Journal of vision · 2022Article
- Brief Report: Preferred Processing of Social Stimuli in Autism: A Perception Task.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022Article
- Reading the mind in cartoon eyes: Comparing human versus cartoon emotion recognition in those with high and low levels of autistic traits.Psychological reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
The purpose of this review was to build upon a recent review by Weigelt et al. which examined visual search strategies and face identification between individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and typically developing peers. Seven databases, CINAHL Plus, EMBASE, ERIC, Medline, Proquest, PsychInfo and PubMed were used to locate published scientific studies matching our inclusion criteria. A total of 28 articles not included in Weigelt et al. met criteria for inclusion into this systematic review. Of these 28 studies, 16 were available and met criteria at the time of the previous review, but were mistakenly excluded; and twelve were recently published. Weigelt et al. found quantitative, but not qualitative, differences in face identification in individuals with ASD. In contrast, the current systematic review found both qualitative and quantitative differences in face identification between individuals with and without ASD. There is a large inconsistency in findings across the eye tracking and neurobiological studies reviewed. Recommendations for future research in face recognition in ASD were discussed.
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