School of Psychology, Flinders University, G.P.O. Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2012 Apr;42(4):606-18. doi: 10.1007/s10803-011-1283-0.
Research has shown that individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) have difficulties recognising emotions from facial expressions. Since eye contact is important for accurate emotion recognition, and individuals with ASD tend to avoid eye contact, this tendency for gaze aversion has been proposed as an explanation for the emotion recognition deficit. This explanation was investigated using a newly developed emotion and mental state recognition task. Individuals with Asperger's Syndrome were less accurate at recognising emotions and mental states, but did not show evidence of gaze avoidance compared to individuals without Asperger's Syndrome. This suggests that the way individuals with Asperger's Syndrome look at faces cannot account for the difficulty they have recognising expressions.
研究表明，自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）患者在识别面部表情的情绪方面存在困难。由于眼神接触对于准确识别情绪很重要，而 ASD 患者往往避免眼神接触，因此这种回避目光的倾向被认为是导致情绪识别缺陷的一个原因。使用新开发的情绪和心理状态识别任务来研究这种解释。与没有阿斯伯格综合征的个体相比，阿斯伯格综合征患者在识别情绪和心理状态方面的准确性较低，但没有表现出回避目光的证据。这表明，阿斯伯格综合征患者看脸的方式并不能解释他们识别表情的困难。
