Social cognition in autism: Face tuning

Abstract Faces convey valuable information for social cognition, effective interpersonal interaction, and non-verbal communication. Face perception is believed to be atypical in autism, but the origin of this deficit is controversial. Dominant featural face encoding is suggested to be responsible fo...

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Autores principales:	Marina A. Pavlova, Michele Guerreschi, Lucia Tagliavento, Filippo Gitti, Alexander N. Sokolov, Andreas J. Fallgatter, Elisa Fazzi
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2017
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:ab117438ecc04272bc81f995996d54c02021-12-02T12:32:29ZSocial cognition in autism: Face tuning10.1038/s41598-017-02790-12045-2322https://doaj.org/article/ab117438ecc04272bc81f995996d54c02017-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-02790-1https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Faces convey valuable information for social cognition, effective interpersonal interaction, and non-verbal communication. Face perception is believed to be atypical in autism, but the origin of this deficit is controversial. Dominant featural face encoding is suggested to be responsible for face tuning scarcity. Here we used a recently developed Face-n-Food paradigm for studying face tuning in individuals with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD). The key benefit of these images is that single components do not explicitly trigger face processing. In a spontaneous recognition task, adolescents with autism and typically developing matched controls were presented with a set of Face-n-Food images in different degree resembling a face (slightly bordering on the Giuseppe Arcimboldo style). The set of images was shown in a predetermined order from the least to most resembling a face. Thresholds for recognition of the Face-n-Food images as a face in ASD individuals were substantially higher than in typically developing controls: they did not report seeing a face on the images, which controls easily recognized as a face, and gave overall fewer face responses. This outcome not only lends support to atypical face tuning, but provides novel insights into the origin of face encoding deficits in autism.Marina A. PavlovaMichele GuerreschiLucia TagliaventoFilippo GittiAlexander N. SokolovAndreas J. FallgatterElisa FazziNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2017)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Marina A. Pavlova Michele Guerreschi Lucia Tagliavento Filippo Gitti Alexander N. Sokolov Andreas J. Fallgatter Elisa Fazzi Social cognition in autism: Face tuning
description	Abstract Faces convey valuable information for social cognition, effective interpersonal interaction, and non-verbal communication. Face perception is believed to be atypical in autism, but the origin of this deficit is controversial. Dominant featural face encoding is suggested to be responsible for face tuning scarcity. Here we used a recently developed Face-n-Food paradigm for studying face tuning in individuals with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD). The key benefit of these images is that single components do not explicitly trigger face processing. In a spontaneous recognition task, adolescents with autism and typically developing matched controls were presented with a set of Face-n-Food images in different degree resembling a face (slightly bordering on the Giuseppe Arcimboldo style). The set of images was shown in a predetermined order from the least to most resembling a face. Thresholds for recognition of the Face-n-Food images as a face in ASD individuals were substantially higher than in typically developing controls: they did not report seeing a face on the images, which controls easily recognized as a face, and gave overall fewer face responses. This outcome not only lends support to atypical face tuning, but provides novel insights into the origin of face encoding deficits in autism.
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title	Social cognition in autism: Face tuning
title_short	Social cognition in autism: Face tuning
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Social cognition in autism: Face tuning

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