{"id":51,"date":"2026-10-30T12:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T12:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/n.movienightfestival.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2026-10-30T12:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T12:08:18","slug":"the-autistic-brain-processes-faces-differently-than-scientists-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/n.movienightfestival.com\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"The autistic brain processes faces differently than scientists thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.8; color: #334155; margin-bottom: 25px;\">A major new study reveals that autistic children\u2019s brains process faces differently, and those differences may begin earlier than scientists previously thought. Researchers found that brain signals associated with recognizing faces become more specialized as neurotypical children grow older, but show much less change in autistic children. The discovery could help explain why some autistic people have difficulty recognizing faces and reading emotions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2026\/10\/261027063824.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block; padding:12px 26px; background:#0f172a; color:#ffffff; font-weight:700; border-radius:6px; text-decoration:none;\">Read Full Story on Source &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major new study reveals that autistic children\u2019s brains process faces differently, and those differences may begin earlier than scientists previously thought. Researchers found that brain signals associated with recognizing faces become more specialized as neurotypical children grow older, but show much less change in autistic children. The discovery could help explain why some autistic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/n.movienightfestival.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/n.movienightfestival.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/n.movienightfestival.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n.movienightfestival.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n.movienightfestival.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/n.movienightfestival.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/n.movienightfestival.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n.movienightfestival.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n.movienightfestival.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}