SynthesisPsychological bulletin2021
A quantitative meta-analysis of face recognition deficits in autism: 40 years of research.
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53 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Early diagnostic value of home video-based machine learning in autism spectrum disorder: a meta-analysis.European journal of pediatrics · 2024Pooled it
- How is race perceived during adolescence? A meta-analysis of the own-race bias.Developmental psychology · 2024Pooled it
- Brain correlates of declarative memory atypicalities in autism: a systematic review of functional neuroimaging findings.Molecular autism · 2023Pooled it
- The Episodic Memory Profile in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Bayesian Meta-Analysis.Neuropsychology review · 2022Pooled it
- Effects of Cannabidiol-Rich Cannabis Oil on Facial Expression Recognition and Theory of Mind in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026Trial
- Empathy and event related potentials before and after EEG based neurofeedback training in autistic adolescents.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Caffeine reduces accuracy in face recognition memory consolidation.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Investigating Social Competence in a Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial of a Theatre-Based Intervention Enhanced for Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Trial
- Peers, play, and performance to build social salience in autistic youth: A multisite randomized clinical trial.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2023Trial
- Social Functioning in Autistic Children with Below-Average vs. Average IQ: Limited Behavioral and Neural Evidence of Group Differences.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Processing of emotional faces has unique functional and cytoarchitectural associations in those with an autism spectrum diagnosis.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2026Article
- Mapping sensory sensitivity in autism.Molecular autism · 2026Article
- Why Music Matters: Music-Listening Functions and Motives in Autistic and Non-autistic Adults.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Reduced social prioritization: An underlying mechanism driving slower latency to look at faces in autism.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2026Article
- Autistic Individuals Do Not Alter Visual Processing Strategy During Encoding Versus Recognition of Faces: A Hidden Markov Modeling Approach.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- A risk prediction model for autism spectrum disorder integrating biopsychosocial factors: a systematic review and meta-analysis with multicenter validation.Translational pediatrics · 2025Article
- Processing of Emotional Faces Has Unique Functional and Cytoarchitectural Associations in those with an Autism Spectrum Diagnosis.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Differing patterns of face processing in infants at elevated likelihood of autism.Infant behavior & development · 2025Article
- Face perception, attention, and memory as predictors of social change in autistic children.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2025Observational
- Ultra-high resolution imaging of laminar thickness in face-selective cortex in autism.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
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Abstract
The ability to recognize an individual face is essential to human social interaction. Even subtle errors in this process can have huge implications for the way we relate to social partners. Because autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by deficits in social interaction, researchers have theorized about the potential role of atypical face identity processing to the symptom profile of ASD for more than 40 years. We conducted an empirical meta-analysis of this large literature to determine whether and to what extent face identity processing is atypical in ASD compared to typically developing (TD) individuals. We also tested the hypotheses that the deficit is selective to face identity recognition, not perception, and that methodological variation across studies moderates the magnitude of the estimated deficit. We identified 112 studies (5,390 participants) that generated 172 effect sizes from both recognition (
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