Riches N G, Loucas T, Baird G, Charman T, Simonoff E
Newcastle University, Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, UK.
Reading University, Berkshire, UK.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2016 Jan;46(1):155-163. doi: 10.1007/s10803-015-2560-0.
According to the weak central coherence (CC) account individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) exhibit enhanced local processing and weak part-whole integration. CC was investigated in the verbal domain. Adolescents, recruited using a 2 (ASD status) by 2 (language impairment status) design, completed an aural forced choice comprehension task involving syntactically ambiguous sentences. Half the picture targets depicted the least plausible interpretation, resulting in longer RTs across groups. These were assumed to reflect local processing. There was no ASD by plausibility interaction and consequently little evidence for weak CC in the verbal domain when conceptualised as enhanced local processing. Furthermore, there was little evidence that the processing of syntactically ambiguous sentences differed as a function of ASD or language-impairment status.
根据弱中央连贯性（CC）理论，自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）患者表现出局部加工增强和整体-部分整合能力较弱。研究在语言领域对CC进行了调查。采用2（ASD状态）×2（语言障碍状态）设计招募青少年，他们完成了一项涉及句法歧义句的听觉强迫选择理解任务。一半的图片目标描绘了最不合理的解释，导致各组的反应时更长。这些被认为反映了局部加工。不存在ASD与合理性之间的交互作用，因此，当将CC概念化为增强的局部加工时，几乎没有证据表明在语言领域存在弱CC。此外，几乎没有证据表明句法歧义句的加工因ASD或语言障碍状态而异。
