title: Response to familiar faces, newly familiar faces, and novel faces as assessed by ERPs is intact in adults with autism spectrum disorders.
abstract: Individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have pervasive impairments in social functioning, which may include problems with processing and remembering faces. In this study, we examined whether posterior ERP components associated with identity processing (P2, N250 and face-N400) and components associated with early-stage face processing (P1 and N170) are atypical in ASD. We collected ERP responses to a familiar repeated face (Familiar), an unfamiliar repeated face (Other) and novel faces (Novels) in 29 high-functioning adults with ASD and matched controls. For both groups, the P2 and N250 were sensitive to repetition (Other vs. Novels) and personal familiarity (Familiar vs. Other), and the face-N400 was sensitive to repetition. Adults with ASD did not show significantly atypical processing of facial familiarity and repetition in an ERP paradigm, despite showing significantly poorer performance than controls on a behavioral test of face memory. This study found no evidence that early-stage facial identity processing is a primary contributor to the face recognition deficit in high-functioning ASD.
authors.affiliation: University of Washington Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Seattle, WA, USA. sjwebb@u.washington.edu
authors.forename: Sara J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Webb
authors.forename: Emily J H
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Kristen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Merkle
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Murias
authors.forename: Jessica
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Greenson
authors.forename: Todd
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Richards
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Aylward
authors.forename: Geraldine
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dawson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002659:Child Development Disorders, Pervasive / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods*; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology*; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
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