Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, 40 Temple Street, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2011 Oct;41(10):1429-35. doi: 10.1007/s10803-010-1150-4.
This study used eyetracking to investigate the ability of young children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) to recognize social (faces) and nonsocial (simple objects and complex block patterns) stimuli using the visual paired comparison (VPC) paradigm. Typically developing (TD) children showed evidence for recognition of faces and simple objects, but not complex block patterns. Children with ASD were successful at recognizing novel objects and block patterns, but showed no evidence for face recognition. These findings suggest that young children with ASD have specific impairments in face recognition, and that they may have advantage over TD controls when processing complex nonsocial stimuli.
本研究使用眼动追踪技术,通过视觉配对比较范式,探究了自闭症谱系障碍(ASD)儿童识别社会(面孔)和非社会(简单物体和复杂积木图案)刺激的能力。典型发育(TD)儿童对面孔和简单物体的识别表现出一定的证据,但对复杂积木图案则没有。ASD 儿童对面孔和复杂积木图案的识别均成功,但对面孔识别没有表现出证据。这些发现表明,ASD 儿童在面孔识别方面存在特定的缺陷,而在处理复杂的非社会刺激时,他们可能比 TD 对照组具有优势。