Autism: face-processing clues to inheritance.
When reading faces, autistic individuals gain considerably less information from the eyes and more from the mouth. A new study reports that some parents of autistic children use strikingly similar strategies, providing a crucial clue as to what might be inherited in autism.
Pellicano
Elizabeth
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Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, 12a Priory Road, Bristol BS8 1TU, UK. liz.pellicano@bristol.ac.uk
D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000235:genetics / Q000523:psychology*; D019260:Expressed Emotion; D005145:Face / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006801:Humans; D040582:Inheritance Patterns; D010290:Parents; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010641:Phenotype; D012919:Social Behavior; D012938:Social Perception