Department of Psychology, Whitehead Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW, UK.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2013 Feb;43(2):432-44. doi: 10.1007/s10803-012-1587-8.
It has been suggested that individuals with autism will be less responsive to the emotional content of music than typical individuals. With the aim of testing this hypothesis, a group of high-functioning adults on the autism spectrum was compared with a group of matched controls on two measures of emotional responsiveness to music, comprising physiological and verbal measures. Impairment in participants ability to verbalize their emotions (type-II alexithymia) was also assessed. The groups did not differ significantly on physiological responsiveness, but the autism group was significantly lower on the verbal measure. However, inclusion of the alexithymia score as a mediator variable nullified this group difference, suggesting that the difference was due not to absence of underlying emotional responsiveness to music in autism, but to a reduced ability to articulate it.
有人认为，自闭症个体对音乐的情感内容的反应不如典型个体敏感。为了验证这一假设，我们比较了一组高功能自闭症谱系成人和一组匹配的对照组在两种音乐情感反应测量上的差异，这两种测量包括生理和言语测量。我们还评估了参与者表达情感的能力（第二型述情障碍）的障碍。两组在生理反应上没有显著差异，但自闭症组在言语测量上显著较低。然而，将述情障碍评分作为中介变量纳入后，消除了这种组间差异，表明这种差异不是由于自闭症患者对音乐缺乏潜在的情感反应，而是由于他们表达情感的能力下降。
