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ERIC Number: EJ967913
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Jun
Pages: 8
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ISSN: ISSN-0162-3257
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A Lack of Left Visual Field Bias when Individuals with Autism Process Faces
Dundas, Eva M.; Best, Catherine A.; Minshew, Nancy J.; Strauss, Mark S.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, v42 n6 p1104-1111 Jun 2012
It has been established that typically developing individuals have a bias to attend to facial information in the left visual field (LVF) more than in the right visual field. This bias is thought to arise from the right hemisphere's advantage for processing facial information, with evidence suggesting it to be driven by the configural demands of face processing. Considering research showing that individuals with autism have impaired face processing abilities, with marked deficits in configural processing, it was hypothesized that they would not demonstrate a LVF bias for faces. Eye-tracking technology was used to show that individuals with autism were not spontaneously biased to facial information in the LVF, in contrast to a control group, while discriminating facial gender.
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Language: English
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