Evidence of an Own-Age Bias in Facial Emotion Recognition for Adolescents With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15519735 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathryn M Hauschild (0000-0002-7347-1028, Stony Brook University, corresponding author), Peter Felsman (0000-0002-8481-8592, Stony Brook University), Cara M Keifer (0000-0003-2162-7948, Stony Brook University), Matthew D Lerner (0000-0002-7373-6663, University of Virginia) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Pages | 428-428 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-03 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Frontiers in Psychiatry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1664-0640 • E-ISSN: 1664-0640 |
| Publisher | Frontiers Media (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00428 |
| PMID | 32581859 |
| OpenAlex | W3033387831 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 63 |
A common interpretation of the face-processing deficits associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is that they arise from a failure to develop normative levels of perceptual expertise. One indicator of perceptual expertise for faces is the own-age bias, operationalized as a processing advantage for faces of one's own age, presumably due to more frequent contact and experience. This effect is especially evident in domains of face recognition memory but less commonly investigated in social-emotional expertise (e.g., facial emotion recognition; FER), where individuals with ASD have shown consistent deficits. In the present study, we investigated whether a FER task would elicit an own-age bias for individuals with and without ASD and explored how the magnitude of an own-age bias may differ as a function of ASD status and symptoms. Ninety-two adolescents (63 male) between the ages of 11 and 14 years completed the child- and adult-face subtests of a standardized FER task. Overall FER accuracy was found to differ by ASD severity, reflecting poorer performance for those with increased symptoms. Results also indicated that an own-age bias was evident, reflecting greater FER performance for child compared to adult faces, for all adolescents regardless of ASD status or symptoms. However, the strength of the observed own-age bias did not differ by ASD status or severity. Findings suggest that face processing abilities of adolescents with ASD may be influenced by experience with specific categories of stimuli, similar to their typically developing peers
Audiology · Autism · Autism spectrum disorder · Developmental psychology · Face perception · Facial expression · Normative · Perception · Autism Spectrum Disorder Research · Face Recognition and Perception · Medicine · Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.8 |
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |