Stieglitz Ham Heidi, Corley Martin, Rajendran Gnanathusharan, Carletta Jean, Swanson Sara
Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2008 Mar;38(3):569-73. doi: 10.1007/s10803-007-0417-x. Epub 2007 Jul 31.
Nineteen people with Asperger syndrome (AS)/High-Functioning Autism (HFA) (ages 7-15) were tested on imitation of two types of meaningless gesture: hand postures and finger positions. The individuals with AS/HFA achieved lower scores in the imitation of both hand and finger positions relative to a matched neurotypical group. The between-group difference was primarily accounted for by performance on a test of visual motor integration, together with a hand imitation deficit which was specifically due to errors in body part orientation. Our findings implicate both visuomotor processes (Damasio and Maurer, 1978) and self-other mapping (Rogers and Pennington, 1991) in ASD imitation deficits. Following Goldenberg (1999), we propose that difficulties with body part orientation may underlie problems in meaningless gesture imitation.
对19名患有阿斯伯格综合征（AS）/高功能自闭症（HFA）（年龄在7至15岁之间）的儿童进行了两种无意义手势模仿测试：手部姿势和手指位置。与匹配的神经典型组相比，患有AS/HFA的个体在手部和手指位置模仿测试中的得分较低。组间差异主要由视觉运动整合测试的表现以及手部模仿缺陷所导致，而这种缺陷具体是由于身体部位定向错误造成的。我们的研究结果表明，视觉运动过程（达马西奥和毛雷尔，1978年）和自我-他人映射（罗杰斯和彭宁顿，1991年）都与自闭症谱系障碍的模仿缺陷有关。根据戈德堡（1999年）的观点，我们认为身体部位定向困难可能是无意义手势模仿问题的潜在原因。
