Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, 12a Priory Road, Bristol BS8 1TU, UK.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2009 Aug;39(8):1112-21. doi: 10.1007/s10803-009-0721-8. Epub 2009 Mar 17.
Findings are mixed concerning inhibition in autism. Using the classic Stroop, children with autism (CWA) often outperform typically developing children (TDC). A classic Stroop and a chimeric animal Stroop were used to explore the validity of the Stroop task as a test of inhibition for CWA. During the classic Stroop, children ignored the word and named the ink colour, then vice versa. Although CWA showed less interference than TDC when colour naming, both groups showed comparable interference when word reading. During the chimeric animal task, children ignored bodies of animals and named heads, and vice versa; the groups performed comparably. Findings confirm that lower reading comprehension affects Stroop interference in CWA, potentially leading to inaccurate conclusions concerning inhibition in CWA.
关于自闭症的抑制作用，研究结果喜忧参半。使用经典的斯特鲁普测试，自闭症儿童（CWA）的表现往往优于典型发育的儿童（TDC）。经典的斯特鲁普测试和混合动物的斯特鲁普测试被用来探索斯特鲁普任务作为抑制测试的有效性对于 CWA。在经典的斯特鲁普测试中，孩子们忽略了单词并命名了墨水的颜色，然后反之亦然。尽管 CWA 在颜色命名时表现出的干扰比 TDC 少，但两组在阅读单词时表现出的干扰相当。在混合动物任务中，孩子们忽略了动物的身体并命名了头部，反之亦然；两组的表现相当。研究结果证实，较低的阅读理解能力会影响 CWA 的斯特鲁普干扰，这可能导致对 CWA 的抑制作用产生不准确的结论。
