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Social cognition in autism: Face tuning.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Neural dysfunctions associated with atypical memory in ASD: an ALE meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
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- Dynamic brain communication underlying face pareidolia in male schizophrenia.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Alterations in looking at face-pareidolia images in autism.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- A real-time environmental translator for emotion recognition in autism spectrum disorder.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Sex differences in social brain neural responses in autism: temporal profiles of configural face-processing within data-driven time windows.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- A behavioral advantage for the face pareidolia illusion in peripheral vision.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Dynamic brain communication underwriting face pareidolia.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- The domestic chick as an animal model of autism spectrum disorder: building adaptive social perceptions through prenatally formed predispositions.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Review
- Face processing in animal models: implications for autism spectrum disorder.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Review
- Relationship between autistic traits and letter-recognition under attention to face-likeness: study using a henohenomoheji-type compound stimulus.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Do subtle cultural differences sculpt face pareidolia?Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2023Article
- Face pareidolia in male schizophrenia.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2022Article
- Social cognition in individuals born preterm.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Discrepancies between explicit and implicit evaluation of aesthetic perception ability in individuals with autism: a potential way to improve social functioning.BMC psychology · 2020Article
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- Amygdala lesions eliminate viewing preferences for faces in rhesus monkeys.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- Second Version of Google Glass as a Wearable Socio-Affective Aid: Positive School Desirability, High Usability, and Theoretical Framework in a Sample of Children with Autism.JMIR human factors · 2018Article
- Even subtle cultural differences affect face tuning.PloS one · 2018Article
- Seeing More Than Human: Autism and Anthropomorphic Theory of Mind.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Review
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Abstract
Faces convey valuable information for social cognition, effective interpersonal interaction, and non-verbal communication. Face perception is believed to be atypical in autism, but the origin of this deficit is controversial. Dominant featural face encoding is suggested to be responsible for face tuning scarcity. Here we used a recently developed Face-n-Food paradigm for studying face tuning in individuals with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD). The key benefit of these images is that single components do not explicitly trigger face processing. In a spontaneous recognition task, adolescents with autism and typically developing matched controls were presented with a set of Face-n-Food images in different degree resembling a face (slightly bordering on the Giuseppe Arcimboldo style). The set of images was shown in a predetermined order from the least to most resembling a face. Thresholds for recognition of the Face-n-Food images as a face in ASD individuals were substantially higher than in typically developing controls: they did not report seeing a face on the images, which controls easily recognized as a face, and gave overall fewer face responses. This outcome not only lends support to atypical face tuning, but provides novel insights into the origin of face encoding deficits in autism.
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