Perception of human and nonhuman facial age by developmentally disabled children

Human and nonhuman faces were shown to clinical controls, autistic, mentally retarded, and language-disordered children to assess their ability to detect and draw inferences about facial age. Children were asked to select from sets of three faces the one that appeared youthful or to select faces tha...

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Published in:Journal of autism and developmental disorders 2002-06, Vol.32 (3), p.169-179
Main Author: GROSS, Thomas F
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age
Aging - psychology
Attention
Autism
Autistic children
Autistic Disorder - diagnosis
Autistic Disorder - psychology
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child clinical studies
Child, Preschool
Concept Formation
Control Groups
Developmental Disabilities
Developmental disorders
Developmentally disabled children
Disabled Children - psychology
Discrimination Learning
Emotions
Eye Movements
Face
Face perception
Female
Humans
Individual Characteristics
Inferences
Information processing
Intellectual disabilities
Intellectual Disability - diagnosis
Intellectual Disability - psychology
Interpersonal Competence
Interpersonal Relations
Language Development Disorders - diagnosis
Language Development Disorders - psychology
Male
Medical sciences
Miscellaneous
Neonates
Physical Characteristics
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Reference Values
Resistance (Psychology)
Social Cognition
Social Perception
Stimuli
Verbal Ability
Visual Perception
Young Children
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Summary:Human and nonhuman faces were shown to clinical controls, autistic, mentally retarded, and language-disordered children to assess their ability to detect and draw inferences about facial age. Children were asked to select from sets of three faces the one that appeared youthful or to select faces that would be associated with some age-related characteristic. In two studies, it was found that, relative to other children, autistic children had more difficulty perceiving youthfulness in nonhuman faces compared with human faces. These data are discussed with respect to differences in mechanisms and processes that may underlie facial information processing in autistic and nonautistic children.
ISSN:0162-3257
1573-3432
DOI:10.1023/A:1015445629062