Ellis Weismer Susan, Haebig Eileen, Edwards Jan, Saffran Jenny, Venker Courtney E
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Goodnight Hall, 1975 Willow Drive, Madison, WI, 53706, USA.
Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1500 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI, 53705, USA.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2016 Dec;46(12):3755-3769. doi: 10.1007/s10803-016-2926-y.
This study investigated whether vocabulary delays in toddlers with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) can be explained by a cognitive style that prioritizes processing of detailed, local features of input over global contextual integration-as claimed by the weak central coherence (WCC) theory. Thirty toddlers with ASD and 30 younger, cognition-matched typical controls participated in a looking-while-listening task that assessed whether perceptual or semantic similarities among named images disrupted word recognition relative to a neutral condition. Overlap of perceptual features invited local processing whereas semantic overlap invited global processing. With the possible exception of a subset of toddlers who had very low vocabulary skills, these results provide no evidence that WCC is characteristic of lexical processing in toddlers with ASD.
本研究调查了自闭症谱系障碍(ASD)幼儿的词汇延迟是否可以用一种认知风格来解释,这种认知风格优先处理输入的详细局部特征而非全局情境整合——这是弱中央连贯性(WCC)理论所主张的。30名患有ASD的幼儿和30名年龄较小、认知匹配的典型对照组幼儿参与了一项边听边看任务,该任务评估相对于中性条件,命名图像之间的感知或语义相似性是否会干扰单词识别。感知特征的重叠引发局部处理,而语义重叠引发全局处理。除了一小部分词汇技能非常低的幼儿外,这些结果没有提供证据表明WCC是患有ASD的幼儿词汇处理的特征。