Falkmer Marita, Black Melissa, Tang Julia, Fitzgerald Patrick, Girdler Sonya, Leung Denise, Ordqvist Anna, Tan Tele, Jahan Ishrat, Falkmer Torbjorn
a School of Occupational Therapy & Social Work, Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI), Curtin University , Perth , Western Australia , Australia .
b School of Education and Communication, CHILD Programme, Institute of Disability Research, Jönköping University , Jönköping , Sweden .
Dev Neurorehabil. 2016;19(2):117-22. doi: 10.3109/17518423.2014.928387. Epub 2014 Jun 24.
While local bias in visual processing in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has been reported to result in difficulties in recognizing faces and facially expressed emotions, but superior ability in disembedding figures, associations between these abilities within a group of children with and without ASD have not been explored.
Possible associations in performance on the Visual Perception Skills Figure-Ground test, a face recognition test and an emotion recognition test were investigated within 25 8-12-years-old children with high-functioning autism/Asperger syndrome, and in comparison to 33 typically developing children.
Analyses indicated a weak positive correlation between accuracy in Figure-Ground recognition and emotion recognition. No other correlation estimates were significant.
These findings challenge both the enhanced perceptual function hypothesis and the weak central coherence hypothesis, and accentuate the importance of further scrutinizing the existance and nature of local visual bias in ASD.
虽然据报道，自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）儿童在视觉处理方面的局部偏向会导致面部识别和面部表情情绪识别困难，但在图形嵌入能力方面表现出色，然而，尚未探讨患有和未患有ASD的儿童群体中这些能力之间的关联。
在25名8至12岁的高功能自闭症/阿斯伯格综合征儿童中，以及与33名发育正常的儿童进行比较，研究了视觉感知技能图形背景测试、面部识别测试和情绪识别测试成绩之间可能存在的关联。
分析表明，图形背景识别准确性与情绪识别之间存在微弱的正相关。没有其他相关估计值具有显著性。
这些发现对增强感知功能假说和弱中央连贯性假说都提出了挑战，并强调了进一步审视ASD中局部视觉偏向的存在及其性质的重要性。
