J. Boucher et al., FAMILIAR FACE AND VOICE MATCHING AND RECOGNITION IN CHILDREN WITH AUTISM, Journal of child psychology and psychiatry and allied disciplines, 39(2), 1998, pp. 171-181
Relatively able children with autism were compared with age-and langua
ge-matched controls on assessments of (1) familiar voice-face identity
matching, (2) familiar face recognition, and (3) familiar voice recog
nition. 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 recogniti
on 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 me
ntal age were consistently related to the recognition and matching imp
airments.