When drawing faces, people show a systematic bias of placing the eyes higher up head than they are placed in reality. This study investigated development this phenomenon while removing potential confound ability. Participants ( N = 124) three age groups (3–5 yo, 10–11 and adults) reconstructed two foam faces: one from observation memory. The high eye placement was remarkably robust with mean ev...

For some time the relationship between processing of facial expression and facial identity has been in dispute. We re-examined this relationship and evaluated whether the same relationship characterized both perception and short-term memory. In three experiments we examined perception and memory for realistic, synthetic human faces. Experiment 1 used subjects’ judgments to identify, from a larg...

A clinical memory test, the Wechsler Memory Scale-III (WMS-III), was used to study the auditory and visual memory of 29 high-functioning adults with autism and 34 group-matched normal controls. The individuals with autism performed as well as the controls on immediate and delayed memory for word pairs and stories and on a verbal working memory task. The autism group was impaired on immediate an...