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Face composite effects reveal abnormal face processing in Autism spectrum disorders . Although it has been suggested that individuals with an Autism spectrum disorder ( ASD ) process faces less holistically than typically developing controls , there are few direct investigations of this hypothesis . This question was addressed before using the composite paradigm ( Teunisse , J. P. , & de Gelder , B . ( 2003 ) . Face processing in adolescents with autistic disorder : The inversion and composite effects . Brain Cognition , 52 ( 3 ) , 285-294. ) . The results had revealed that adolescents with ASDs were less sensitive than controls to the misalignment of face parts and it was concluded their face processing was less holistic . However , because of shortcomings of the design , it was not possible to distinguish whether individuals with Autism processed both aligned and misaligned composites in a part-based fashion , or both in a holistic fashion . We compared adolescents with ASDs to controls matched on sex , age and IQ on a more complete version of the composite paradigm . The results indicate that individuals with ASDs , like controls , experience interference from facial features that they are told to ignore . However , while such interference is released for controls if parts of face composites are misaligned , individuals with ASDs show comparable interference from irrelevant parts regardless of alignment . Two different interpretations are discussed , both compatible with the idea that perceptual and or attentional abnormalities in ASDs result in a diminished level of expertise for faces .
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Intervention_Other
Face composite
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Intervention_Psychological
adolescents with ASDs
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Intervention_Control
controls
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Intervention_Psychological
composite paradigm
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Outcome_Mental
experience interference
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Outcome_Mental
comparable interference