Recognizing the same face in different contexts: Testing within-person face recognition in typical development and in autism.

ABSTRACT: Unfamiliar face recognition follows a particularly protracted developmental trajectory and is more likely to be atypical in children with autism than those without autism. There is a paucity of research, however, examining the ability to recognize the same face across multiple naturally varying images. Here, we investigated within-person face recognition in children with and without autism. In Experiment 1, typically developing 6- and 7-year-olds, 8- and 9-year-olds, 10- and 11-year-olds, 12- to 14-year-olds, and adults were given 40 grayscale photographs of two distinct male identities (20 of each face taken at different ages, from different angles, and in different lighting conditions) and were asked to sort them by identity. Children mistook images of the same person as images of differ

SUBMITTER: Neil L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4722798 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature