Macdonald H, Rutter M, Howlin P, Rios P, Le Conteur A, Evered C, Folstein S
Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, London, U.K.
J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 1989 Nov;30(6):865-77. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1989.tb00288.x.
High-functioning autistic adults were compared with normal adults using a battery of tests devised to assess the recognition and expression of emotional cues in both facial and vocal modalities. The autistic subjects were relatively impaired in both the appreciation and production of emotional expressions. Although no one test provided a clear-cut separation of the groups at the individual level, composite scores did separate the groups quite well. It is suggested that this battery of tasks may have some value in family genetic studies of autism that need to identify subclinical deficits that might be aetiologically linked with autism.
使用一系列旨在评估面部和声音模式中情感线索识别与表达的测试，对高功能自闭症成年人与正常成年人进行了比较。自闭症受试者在情感表达的理解和产生方面均相对受损。尽管没有一项测试能在个体层面清晰地区分两组，但综合分数确实能很好地将两组区分开来。有人认为，这一系列任务可能在自闭症的家庭遗传研究中具有一定价值，这类研究需要识别可能在病因上与自闭症相关的亚临床缺陷。
