Rondan Cecilie, Deruelle Christine
Mediterranean Institute for Cognitive Neurosciences, UMR 6193, CNRS, 31 Chemin Joseph Aiguier, Marseille Cedex, France.
Res Dev Disabil. 2007 Mar-Apr;28(2):197-206. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2006.02.007. Epub 2006 Apr 17.
This study was designed to explore how adults with autism and Asperger syndrome (ASD) would visually process compound figures. They were tested in two tasks, one involving hierarchical global/local stimuli, the other involving face-like or geometrical stimuli where the processing of the inter-elemental spatial relationships was emphasized. Adults with ASD showed, like controls, a preference for the global level of the hierarchical stimuli. With the stimuli involving inter-elemental spatial relationship manipulations, the adults with ASD showed a preference for local elements, whereas controls did not show a preference. This supports earlier findings from children with ASD, suggesting that though individuals with autism may process global aspects of stimuli in priority, they tend to specific aspects in stimuli containing both local and configural elements.
本研究旨在探索患有自闭症和阿斯伯格综合征（ASD）的成年人如何在视觉上处理复合图形。他们接受了两项任务测试，一项涉及层次全局/局部刺激，另一项涉及强调元素间空间关系处理的类脸或几何刺激。患有ASD的成年人与对照组一样，表现出对层次刺激全局水平的偏好。在涉及元素间空间关系操纵的刺激中，患有ASD的成年人表现出对局部元素的偏好，而对照组则没有表现出偏好。这支持了早期对患有ASD儿童的研究结果，表明尽管自闭症患者可能优先处理刺激的全局方面，但在包含局部和构型元素的刺激中，他们倾向于关注特定方面。
