Face recognition and visual search strategies in autism spectrum disorders: Amending and extending a recent review by Weigelt et al.
The purpose of this review was to build upon a recent review by Weigelt et al. which examined visual search strategies and face identification between individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and typically developing peers. Seven databases, CINAHL Plus, EMBASE, ERIC, Medline, Proquest, Psych...
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| author | Tang, Julia Falkmer, Marita Horlin, Chiara Tan, Tele Vaz, Sharmila Falkmer, Torbjorn |
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| description | The purpose of this review was to build upon a recent review by Weigelt et al. which examined visual search strategies and face identification between individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and typically developing peers. Seven databases, CINAHL Plus, EMBASE, ERIC, Medline, Proquest, PsychInfo and PubMed were used to locate published scientific studies matching our inclusion criteria. A total of 28 articles not included in Weigelt et al. met criteria for inclusion into this systematic review. Of these 28 studies, 16 were available and met criteria at the time of the previous review, but were mistakenly excluded; and twelve were recently published. Weigelt et al. found quantitative, but not qualitative, differences in face identification in individuals with ASD. In contrast, the current systematic review found both qualitative and quantitative differences in face identification between individuals with and without ASD. There is a large inconsistency in findings across the eye tracking and neurobiological studies reviewed. Recommendations for future research in face recognition in ASD were discussed. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-139852017-09-13T15:01:41Z Face recognition and visual search strategies in autism spectrum disorders: Amending and extending a recent review by Weigelt et al. Tang, Julia Falkmer, Marita Horlin, Chiara Tan, Tele Vaz, Sharmila Falkmer, Torbjorn The purpose of this review was to build upon a recent review by Weigelt et al. which examined visual search strategies and face identification between individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and typically developing peers. Seven databases, CINAHL Plus, EMBASE, ERIC, Medline, Proquest, PsychInfo and PubMed were used to locate published scientific studies matching our inclusion criteria. A total of 28 articles not included in Weigelt et al. met criteria for inclusion into this systematic review. Of these 28 studies, 16 were available and met criteria at the time of the previous review, but were mistakenly excluded; and twelve were recently published. Weigelt et al. found quantitative, but not qualitative, differences in face identification in individuals with ASD. In contrast, the current systematic review found both qualitative and quantitative differences in face identification between individuals with and without ASD. There is a large inconsistency in findings across the eye tracking and neurobiological studies reviewed. Recommendations for future research in face recognition in ASD were discussed. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13985 10.1371/journal.pone.0134439 Public Library of Science fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Tang, Julia Falkmer, Marita Horlin, Chiara Tan, Tele Vaz, Sharmila Falkmer, Torbjorn Face recognition and visual search strategies in autism spectrum disorders: Amending and extending a recent review by Weigelt et al. |
| title | Face recognition and visual search strategies in autism spectrum disorders: Amending and extending a recent review by Weigelt et al. |
| title_full | Face recognition and visual search strategies in autism spectrum disorders: Amending and extending a recent review by Weigelt et al. |
| title_fullStr | Face recognition and visual search strategies in autism spectrum disorders: Amending and extending a recent review by Weigelt et al. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Face recognition and visual search strategies in autism spectrum disorders: Amending and extending a recent review by Weigelt et al. |
| title_short | Face recognition and visual search strategies in autism spectrum disorders: Amending and extending a recent review by Weigelt et al. |
| title_sort | face recognition and visual search strategies in autism spectrum disorders: amending and extending a recent review by weigelt et al. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13985 |