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Face Memory and Object Recognition in Children with High-Functioning Autism or Asperger Syndrome and in Their Parents
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Kuusikko-Gauffin, Sanna; Jansson-Verkasalo, Eira; Carter, Alice; Pollock-Wurman, Rachel; Jussila, Katja; Mattila, Marja-Leena; Rahko, Jukka; Ebeling, Hanna; Pauls, David; Moilanen, Irma – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2011
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) have reported to have impairments in face, recognition and face memory, but intact object recognition and object memory. Potential abnormalities, in these fields at the family level of high-functioning children with ASD remains understudied despite, the ever-mounting evidence that ASDs are genetic and…
Descriptors: Autism, Asperger Syndrome, Social Cognition, Parents
Processing of Affective Speech Prosody Is Impaired in Asperger Syndrome
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Korpilahti, Pirjo; Jansson-Verkasalo, Eira; Mattila, Marja-Leena; Kuusikko, Sanna; Suominen, Kalervo; Rytky, Seppo; Pauls, David L.; Moilanen, Irma – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2007
Many people with the diagnosis of Asperger syndrome (AS) show poorly developed skills in understanding emotional messages. The present study addressed discrimination of speech prosody in children with AS at neurophysiological level. Detection of affective prosody was investigated in one-word utterances as indexed by the N1 and the mismatch…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Males, Asperger Syndrome, Language Processing