Using effort to measure reward value of faces in children with autism.

According to one influential account, face processing atypicalities in autism reflect reduced reward value of faces, which results in limited attention to faces during development and a consequent failure to acquire face expertise. Surprisingly, however, there is a paucity of work directly investiga...

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Autores principales:	Louise Ewing, Elizabeth Pellicano, Gillian Rhodes
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:a2047f99b94540fab8f51084cc58d9f22021-11-18T08:46:46ZUsing effort to measure reward value of faces in children with autism.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0079493https://doaj.org/article/a2047f99b94540fab8f51084cc58d9f22013-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24236140/pdf/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203According to one influential account, face processing atypicalities in autism reflect reduced reward value of faces, which results in limited attention to faces during development and a consequent failure to acquire face expertise. Surprisingly, however, there is a paucity of work directly investigating the reward value of faces for individuals with autism and the evidence for diminished face rewards in this population remains equivocal. In the current study, we measured how hard children with autism would work to view faces, using an effortful key-press sequence, and whether they were sensitive to the differential reward value of attractive and unattractive faces. Contrary to expectations, cognitively able children with autism did not differ from typically developing children of similar age and ability in their willingness to work to view faces. Moreover, the effort expended was strongly positively correlated with facial attractiveness ratings in both groups of children. There was also no evidence of atypical reward values for other, less social categories (cars and inverted faces) in the children with autism. These results speak against the possibility that face recognition difficulties in autism are explained by atypical reward value of faces.Louise EwingElizabeth PellicanoGillian RhodesPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 11, p e79493 (2013)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Louise Ewing Elizabeth Pellicano Gillian Rhodes Using effort to measure reward value of faces in children with autism.
description	According to one influential account, face processing atypicalities in autism reflect reduced reward value of faces, which results in limited attention to faces during development and a consequent failure to acquire face expertise. Surprisingly, however, there is a paucity of work directly investigating the reward value of faces for individuals with autism and the evidence for diminished face rewards in this population remains equivocal. In the current study, we measured how hard children with autism would work to view faces, using an effortful key-press sequence, and whether they were sensitive to the differential reward value of attractive and unattractive faces. Contrary to expectations, cognitively able children with autism did not differ from typically developing children of similar age and ability in their willingness to work to view faces. Moreover, the effort expended was strongly positively correlated with facial attractiveness ratings in both groups of children. There was also no evidence of atypical reward values for other, less social categories (cars and inverted faces) in the children with autism. These results speak against the possibility that face recognition difficulties in autism are explained by atypical reward value of faces.
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title	Using effort to measure reward value of faces in children with autism.
title_short	Using effort to measure reward value of faces in children with autism.
title_full	Using effort to measure reward value of faces in children with autism.
title_fullStr	Using effort to measure reward value of faces in children with autism.
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Using effort to measure reward value of faces in children with autism.

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