Volkmar F R, Sparrow S S, Rende R D, Cohen D J
Child Study Center, Yale University, Connecticut, New Haven 06510.
J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 1989 Jul;30(4):591-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1989.tb00270.x.
Disturbances in gaze and patterns of facial interaction are prominent aspects of social dysfunction in autism; the nature of this disturbance has up to the present been unclear. This study examined the ability of autistic subjects to use the human face as a source of information. Autistic and age- and MA-matched retarded control subjects assembled a series of puzzles displaying photographs of human faces; puzzles differed in complexity, familiarity of the faces and configuration (normal vs scrambled faces). Significant effects of all three factors, but not of diagnostic group, were observed. The autistic subjects did not exhibit specific deficits in perception of faces.
目光紊乱和面部互动模式是自闭症社交功能障碍的突出表现；迄今为止，这种紊乱的本质尚不清楚。本研究考察了自闭症受试者将人脸用作信息来源的能力。自闭症受试者以及年龄和心理年龄匹配的智力迟钝对照受试者组装了一系列展示人脸照片的拼图；拼图在复杂性、面孔熟悉度和构图（正常面孔与打乱面孔）方面存在差异。观察到所有这三个因素都有显著影响，但诊断组没有显著影响。自闭症受试者在面孔感知方面未表现出特定缺陷。
