M Schaller Ulrich, Rauh Reinhold
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Hauptstrasse 8, 79104, Freiburg, Germany.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2017 Apr;47(4):961-979. doi: 10.1007/s10803-016-3008-x.
We tested social cognition abilities of adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and neurotypically developed peers (NTD). A multi-faceted test-battery including facial emotion categorization (FEC), classical false belief tasks (FBT), and complex social cognition (SC), yielded significantly lower accuracy rates for FEC and complex SC tasks in ASD, but no significant differences in performance concerning FBT. A significant correlation between age and performance in a FEC task and in a complex task was found only in ASD. We propose that dynamic and/or fragmented FEC tasks can elicit deficits in implicit processing of facial emotion more efficiently. The difficulties of ASD in solving complex SC tasks can be ascribed to deficits in the acquisition and application of social schemata.
我们测试了患有自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）的青少年和发育正常的同龄人（NTD）的社会认知能力。一个多方面的测试组，包括面部情绪分类（FEC）、经典错误信念任务（FBT）和复杂社会认知（SC），结果显示ASD患者在FEC和复杂SC任务中的准确率显著较低，但在FBT任务的表现上没有显著差异。仅在ASD患者中发现年龄与FEC任务和复杂任务表现之间存在显著相关性。我们提出，动态和/或碎片化的FEC任务能够更有效地引发面部情绪内隐加工方面的缺陷。ASD患者在解决复杂SC任务时遇到的困难可归因于社会图式获取和应用方面的缺陷。
