Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA.
Autism Res. 2010 Apr;3(2):88-93. doi: 10.1002/aur.125.
Evidence remains mixed about whether individuals with autism look less to eyes and whether they look more at mouths. Few studies have examined how spontaneous attention to facial features relates to face processing abilities. This study tested the ability to discriminate gender from facial features, namely eyes and mouths, by comparing accuracy scores of 17 children with autism and 15 adults with autism to 17 typically developing children and 15 typically developing adults. Results indicated that all participants regardless of diagnosis discriminated gender more accurately from eyes than from mouths. However, results indicated that compared to adults without autism, adults with autism were significantly worse at discriminating gender from eyes.
关于自闭症个体是否较少注视眼睛，以及他们是否更多地注视嘴巴，证据仍然存在分歧。很少有研究探讨自发性注视面部特征与面部加工能力的关系。本研究通过比较 17 名自闭症儿童和 15 名自闭症成人与 17 名正常发育儿童和 15 名正常发育成人的准确性得分，测试了从面部特征（即眼睛和嘴巴）识别性别的能力。结果表明，所有参与者，无论诊断如何，从眼睛识别性别的准确性都高于从嘴巴。然而，结果表明，与非自闭症成人相比，自闭症成人从眼睛识别性别的能力明显较差。
