Atypically slow processing of faces and non-faces in older autistic adults.

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Some theories suggested that social difficulties in autism arise from differences in the processing of faces. If face-processing difficulties are central to autism, then they should be as persistent as social difficulties across the lifespan. We tested this by asking autistic and neurotypical participants between 30 and 75 years to complete face detection tasks. Both autistic and neurotypical adults responded more slowly with age. When participants had to respond quickly, autistic adults made more errors in face detection regardless of their age. However, when the time constraint was removed, autistic adults performed as well as the neurotypical group. Across tasks, autistic adults responded more slowly when asked to detect both face and non-face stimuli. We also inves

SUBMITTER: Bathelt J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9483195 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature