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Familiar Face and Voice Matching and Recognition in Children with Autism
Author(s) -
Boucher Jill,
Lewis Vicky,
Collis Glyn
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/1469-7610.00311
Subject(s) - psychology , facial recognition system , identity (music) , matching (statistics) , autism , face (sociological concept) , cognitive psychology , speaker recognition , speech recognition , audiology , developmental psychology , pattern recognition (psychology) , computer science , linguistics , medicine , philosophy , physics , acoustics , pathology
Relatively able children with autism were compared with age‐ and language‐matched controls on assessments of (1) familiar voice‐face identity matching, (2) familiar face recognition, and (3) familiar voice recognition. The faces and voices of individuals at the children's schools were used as stimuli. The experimental group were impaired relative to the controls on all three tasks. Face recognition and voice recognition correlated significantly with voice‐face identity matching, but not with each other, suggesting that the recognition impairments jointly cause the matching impairment. Neither chronological age nor verbal mental age were consistently related to the recognition and matching impairments.