Jones Catherine R G, Lambrechts Anna, Gaigg Sebastian B
School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Tower Building, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK.
Department of Psychology, City University London, Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB, UK.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2017 Jul;47(7):2054-2066. doi: 10.1007/s10803-017-3120-6.
Establishing whether implicit responses to emotional cues are intact in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is fundamental to ascertaining why their emotional understanding is compromised. We used a temporal bisection task to assess for responsiveness to face and wildlife images that varied in emotional salience. There were no significant differences between an adult ASD and comparison group, with both showing implicit overestimation of emotional stimuli. Further, there was no correlation between overestimation of emotional stimuli and autistic traits in undergraduate students. These data do not suggest a fundamental insensitivity to the arousing content of emotional images in ASD, or in individuals with a high degree of autistic traits. The findings have implications for understanding how emotional stimuli are processed in ASD.
确定自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）患者对情绪线索的内隐反应是否完整，对于弄清楚他们的情绪理解为何受损至关重要。我们使用了一个时间二分任务来评估对情绪显著性不同的面部和野生动物图像的反应能力。成年自闭症谱系障碍患者组与对照组之间没有显著差异，两组均表现出对情绪刺激的内隐高估。此外，在本科生中，对情绪刺激的高估与自闭症特征之间没有相关性。这些数据并不表明自闭症谱系障碍患者或具有高度自闭症特征的个体对情绪图像的激发内容存在根本的不敏感性。这些发现对于理解自闭症谱系障碍中情绪刺激是如何被处理具有启示意义。
