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Familiar Face and Voice Matching and Recognition in Children with Autism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1998

Jill Boucher ,
Vicky Lewis  and
Glyn Collis
Jill Boucher
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield, U.K.
Vicky Lewis
Affiliation:
The Open University, Milton Keynes, U.K.
Glyn Collis
Affiliation:
University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K.
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Abstract

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.

Abbreviations: APT-I: Action Picture Test Information Scale; CA: chronological age; MLD: moderate learning disability; SLI: specific language impairments

Keywords

Autismschool childrenface perceptionvoice perceptionmemory
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , February 1998 , pp. 171 - 181
Copyright
© 1998 Association for Child Psychology and Psychiatry

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