• DOI:10.1111/1469-7610.00142
Corpus ID: 17997619

Holistic and part-based face recognition in children with autism.

@article{Joseph2003HolisticAP,
  title={Holistic and part-based face recognition in children with autism.},
  author={R. Joseph and J. Tanaka},
  journal={Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines},
  year={2003},
  volume={44 4},
  pages={
          529-42
        }
}

R. Joseph, J. Tanaka

Published 2003

Psychology, Medicine

Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines

BACKGROUND There is substantial evidence that children with autism are impaired in face recognition. Although many researchers have suggested that this impairment derives from a failure of holistic face processing and a tendency to represent and encode faces on a part-by-part basis, this hypothesis has not been tested directly. METHOD Holistic face processing was assessed by comparing children's ability to recognize a face part (eyes, nose, or mouth) in the context of the whole face in which… CONTINUE READING

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