ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2022
Face-Processing Performance is an Independent Predictor of Social Affect as Measured by the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule Across Large-Scale Datasets.
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- Multi-View Analysis of Facial Expressions in Minimally Verbal Autism: Preliminary Evidence From Social Communication Observations.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Examining the Link Between Social Affect and Visual Exploration of Cute Stimuli in Autistic Children.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Sex differences in the relationship between autistic traits and face-change discrimination sensitivity in the general population: a psychophysical investigation.Cognitive processing · 2025Article
- Contrasting neurofunctional correlates of face- and visuospatial-processing in children and adolescents with Williams syndrome: convergent results from four fMRI paradigms.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Tubers Affecting the Fusiform Face Area Are Associated with Autism Diagnosis.Annals of neurology · 2023Article
- Using causal methods to map symptoms to brain circuits in neurodevelopment disorders: moving from identifying correlates to developing treatments.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2022Review
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Abstract
Face-processing deficits, while not required for the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), have been associated with impaired social skills-a core feature of ASD; however, the strength and prevalence of this relationship remains unclear. Across 445 participants from the NIMH Data Archive, we examined the relationship between Benton Face Recognition Test (BFRT) performance and Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule-Social Affect (ADOS-SA) scores. Lower BFRT scores (worse face-processing performance) were associated with higher ADOS-SA scores (higher ASD severity)-a relationship that held after controlling for other factors associated with face processing, i.e., age, sex, and IQ. These findings underscore the utility of face discrimination, not just recognition of facial emotion, as a key covariate for the severity of symptoms that characterize ASD.
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