Patten Elena, Labban Jeffrey D, Casenhiser Devin M, Cotton Catherine L
a Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology , The University of Tennessee Health Science Center , Knoxville , Tennessee.
b Department of Kinesiology , University of North Carolina at Greensboro , Greensboro , North Carolina.
Dev Neuropsychol. 2016 Jul-Dec;41(5-8):362-374. doi: 10.1080/87565641.2016.1243113. Epub 2017 Jan 6.
Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) may be impaired in their ability to detect audiovisual synchrony and their ability may be influenced by the nature of the stimuli. We investigated the possibility that synchrony detection is disrupted by the presence of human faces by testing children with ASD using a preferential looking language-based paradigm. Children with low language abilities were significantly worse at detecting synchrony when the stimuli include an unobscured face than when the face was obscured. Findings suggest that the presence of faces may make multisensory processing more difficult. Implications for interventions are discussed, particularly those targeting attention to faces.
患有自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）的儿童在检测视听同步方面可能存在能力缺陷，且其能力可能会受到刺激性质的影响。我们通过使用基于偏好注视的语言范式对患有ASD的儿童进行测试，研究了人脸的存在是否会干扰同步检测。当刺激物包括一张未被遮挡的脸时，语言能力较低的儿童在检测同步方面明显比脸被遮挡时更差。研究结果表明，人脸的存在可能会使多感官处理更加困难。我们讨论了干预措施的意义，特别是那些针对关注人脸的干预措施。
