Neurocognitive Development Unit, School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Perth, WA 6009, Australia.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2012 Nov;42(11):2420-30. doi: 10.1007/s10803-012-1506-z.
The aim of this investigation was to explore the degree to which specific subsets of autistic-like traits relate to performance on the Embedded Figures Test (Witkin et al. in A manual for the embedded figures test. Consulting Psychologists Press, Palo Alto, CA, 1971). In the first group-based investigation with this focus, students were selected for their extreme scores (either high or low) on each of the 'Social Skills' and 'Details/Patterns' factors of the Autism Spectrum Quotient (Baron-Cohen et al. in J Austim Dev Disord 31:5-17, 2001). The resulting 2 × 2 factorial design permitted examination of the degree to which the social and non-social autistic-like traits separately relate to EFT performance. Surprisingly, in two studies, superior EFT performance was found to relate only to greater social difficulty, suggesting that the local processing bias in autism may be linked specifically to the social deficits.
本研究旨在探讨特定自闭症样特质亚组与镶嵌图形测验（Witkin 等人，1971 年，《镶嵌图形测验手册》。咨询心理学家出版社，帕洛阿尔托，加利福尼亚）表现之间的关联程度。这是首次针对这一重点的基于群体的研究，研究对象根据自闭症谱系商数（Baron-Cohen 等人，2001 年，《自闭症发展障碍杂志》31:5-17）的“社交技能”和“细节/模式”因子的极端得分（高或低）进行选择。由此产生的 2×2 因子设计允许检查社交和非社交自闭症样特质分别与 EFT 表现的关联程度。令人惊讶的是，在两项研究中，发现优越的 EFT 表现仅与更大的社交困难相关，这表明自闭症中的局部处理偏差可能与社交缺陷特别相关。
