title: [Facial recognition and autism].
abstract: Through the presentation of four facial expressions' illustrations, we evaluate the capacity of autistic children recognition, comparing with normal intelligence children and adults. The comparison of results was accomplished through the qui-square test. The differences observed were significant, showing that a disturbance of the facial expressions' perception is present in autistic children, and that it interferes directly in the social relationships.
authors.affiliation: Serviço de Psiquiatria da Infância e da Adolescência (SEPIA), Instituto de Psiquiatria (IPq), Hospital das Clínicas (HC) da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP), Brasil.
authors.forename: F B
authors.initials: FB
authors.lastname: Assumpçäo Júnior
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Sprovieri
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kuczynski
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Farinha
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D004644:Emotions; D005149:Facial Expression; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology