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. 2010 Feb;32(2):212-8.
doi: 10.1080/13803390902971123. Epub 2009 Jun 25.

Do children perceive features of real and cartoon faces in the same way? Evidence from typical development and autism

Delphine B Rosset  1 , Andreia Santos, David Da Fonseca, Francois Poinso, Kate O'Connor, Christine Deruelle
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Do children perceive features of real and cartoon faces in the same way? Evidence from typical development and autism

Delphine B Rosset et al. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol. 2010 Feb.

Abstract

In the current study, typically developing children and children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) were presented with a facial-feature discrimination task including both real and cartoon faces, displayed either upright or inverted. Results demonstrated that typically developing children were more accurate at discriminating facial features from upright than from inverted faces and that this effect was specific to real faces. By contrast, children with ASD failed to show such a specific pattern of performance for processing facial features displayed in real faces. Findings of the current study suggest that face type (real vs. cartoon) does not affect perceptual ability in children with ASD as it does in typically developing children.

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