Lewis Amelia K, Porter Melanie A, Williams Tracey A, Bzishvili Samantha, North Kathryn N, Payne Jonathan M
Department of Psychology, Macquarie University.
ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and Its Disorders, Macquarie University.
Neuropsychology. 2017 May;31(4):361-370. doi: 10.1037/neu0000340. Epub 2017 Mar 20.
This study aimed to investigate face scan paths and face perception abilities in children with Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1) and how these might relate to emotion recognition abilities in this population.
The authors investigated facial emotion recognition, face scan paths, and face perception in 29 children with NF1 compared to 29 chronological age-matched typically developing controls. Correlations between facial emotion recognition, face scan paths, and face perception in children with NF1 were examined.
Children with NF1 displayed significantly poorer recognition of fearful expressions compared to controls, as well as a nonsignificant trend toward poorer recognition of anger. Although there was no significant difference between groups in time spent viewing individual core facial features (eyes, nose, mouth, and nonfeature regions), children with NF1 spent significantly less time than controls viewing the face as a whole. Children with NF1 also displayed significantly poorer face perception abilities than typically developing controls. Facial emotion recognition deficits were not significantly associated with aberrant face scan paths or face perception abilities in the NF1 group.
These results suggest that impairments in the perception, identification, and interpretation of information from faces are important aspects of the social-cognitive phenotype of NF1. (PsycINFO Database Record
本研究旨在调查1型神经纤维瘤病（NF1）患儿的面部扫描路径和面部感知能力，以及这些能力与该人群情绪识别能力之间的关系。
作者对29名NF1患儿和29名年龄匹配的正常发育对照儿童进行了面部情绪识别、面部扫描路径和面部感知的研究。研究了NF1患儿面部情绪识别、面部扫描路径和面部感知之间的相关性。
与对照组相比，NF1患儿对恐惧表情的识别能力明显较差，对愤怒表情的识别能力也有较差的趋势，但不显著。虽然两组在观察单个核心面部特征（眼睛、鼻子、嘴巴和非特征区域）的时间上没有显著差异，但NF1患儿观察整个面部的时间明显少于对照组。NF1患儿的面部感知能力也明显低于正常发育的对照组。在NF1组中，面部情绪识别缺陷与异常的面部扫描路径或面部感知能力没有显著关联。
这些结果表明，面部信息感知、识别和解释方面的缺陷是NF1社会认知表型的重要方面。（PsycINFO数据库记录）
