Investigation into the Association between Face Processing Abilities, Intelligence, and Autistic-Like Traits

Dana Walker

doi:10.26182/mr20-t308

Investigation into the Association between Face Processing Abilities, Intelligence, and Autistic-Like Traits

Dana Walker

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The ability to detect, perceive, and recognise a person's identity and emotion via their face is a socially adaptive capacity for humans. Individual differences within the general population are consistent with a continuum and this remains an active area of research. Intelligence and trait-autism may be associated with individual differences in face processing. This thesis investigated the convergent and divergent validity of face processing with the key aims of conceptualising face processing within the Cattell-Horn-Carroll model of intelligence, diagnosing developmental prosopagnosia as a learning disability, and investigating the association with trait-autism, in line with the social motivation theory of autism.

Original language	English
Qualification	Doctor of Philosophy
Awarding Institution	The University of Western Australia
Supervisors/Advisors	Gignac, Gilles, Supervisor Palermo, Romina, Supervisor
Thesis sponsors	Australian Government Research Training Program
Award date	14 Nov 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.26182/mr20-t308
Publication status	Unpublished - 2023

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1 Review article

General figure and face-specific closure ability: predictors of trait-autism?
Walker, D., Palermo, R. & Gignac, G., Jan 2024, In: Current Psychology . 43, 2, p. 1179-1189 11 p.
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The association between intelligence and face processing abilities: A conceptual and meta-analytic review
Walker, D., Palermo, R., Callis, Z. & Gignac, G., 1 Jan 2023, In: Intelligence. 96, 101718.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
9 Citations (Scopus)

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General figure and face-specific closure ability: predictors of trait-autism?

The association between intelligence and face processing abilities: A conceptual and meta-analytic review

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