Intact attentional orienting towards inverted faces revealed by both manual responses and eye ‐movement measurement in individuals with Williams syndrome

ConclusionAlthough individuals with WS exhibited atypical gaze behaviour towards upright faces in our previous study, this unusual behaviour disappears if the faces are upside down. These findings suggest that local feature information alone (e.g. eyes) does not contribute to the heightened attention to faces, but configural information appears necessary for drawing attention to faces in individuals with WS, at least in the current experimental paradigm.
Source: Journal of Intellectual Disability Research - Category: Disability Authors: Tags: Special Issue Source Type: research