ArticleFrontiers in psychology2016
Social Cognition in Williams Syndrome: Face Tuning.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- Dissociation of early and late face-related processes in autism spectrum disorder and Williams syndrome.Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2022Article
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- An Exploration of Social Cognition in Children with Different Degrees of Genetic Deletion in Williams Syndrome.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2021Article
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- Social Cognition in Down Syndrome: Face Tuning in Face-Like Non-Face Images.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Social cognition in autism: Face tuning.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
Many neurological, neurodevelopmental, neuropsychiatric, and psychosomatic disorders are characterized by impairments in visual social cognition, body language reading, and facial assessment of a social counterpart. Yet a wealth of research indicates that individuals with Williams syndrome exhibit remarkable concern for social stimuli and face fascination. Here individuals with Williams syndrome were presented with a set of Face-n-Food images composed of food ingredients and in different degree resembling a face (slightly bordering on the Giuseppe Arcimboldo style). The primary advantage of these images is that single components do not explicitly trigger face-specific processing, whereas in face images commonly used for investigating face perception (such as photographs or depictions), the mere occurrence of typical cues already implicates face presence. In a spontaneous recognition task, participants were shown a set of images in a predetermined order from the least to most resembling a face. Strikingly, individuals with Williams syndrome exhibited profound deficits in recognition of the Face-n-Food images as a face: they did not report seeing a face on the images, which typically developing controls effortlessly recognized as a face, and gave overall fewer face responses. This suggests atypical face tuning in Williams syndrome. The outcome is discussed in the light of a general pattern of social cognition in Williams syndrome and brain mechanisms underpinning face processing.
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