Wilson C Ellie, Palermo Romina, Burton A Mike, Brock Jon
Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2011 Oct;64(10):1939-54. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2011.603052. Epub 2011 Sep 7.
Empirical data regarding the extent of face recognition abnormalities in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is inconsistent. Here, 27 ASD and 47 typically developing (TD) children completed an immediate two-alternative forced-choice identity matching task. We contrasted recognition of own- and other-race faces, and, counter to prediction, we found a typical advantage for recognizing own- over other-race faces in both the ASD and TD groups. In addition, ASD and TD groups responded similarly to stimulus manipulations (use of identical or different photographs for identity matching and cropping stimuli to remove hair information). However, age-standardized scores varied widely within the ASD sample, and a subgroup of ASD participants with impaired face recognition did not exhibit a significant own-race recognition advantage. An explanation regarding early experience with faces is considered, and implications for research of individual variation within ASD are discussed.
关于自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）中面部识别异常程度的实证数据并不一致。在此，27名患有ASD的儿童和47名发育正常（TD）的儿童完成了一项即时二选一的强制选择身份匹配任务。我们对比了对自己种族和其他种族面孔的识别，与预测相反，我们发现在ASD组和TD组中，识别自己种族面孔比识别其他种族面孔都具有典型优势。此外，ASD组和TD组对刺激操作（使用相同或不同照片进行身份匹配以及裁剪刺激物以去除头发信息）的反应相似。然而，ASD样本中的年龄标准化分数差异很大，并且面部识别受损的ASD参与者亚组并未表现出显著的本族面孔识别优势。文中考虑了关于早期面部体验的一种解释，并讨论了其对ASD个体差异研究的启示。
