Russo Luigi, Craig Francesco, Ruggiero Marta, Mancuso Claudio, Galluzzi Rita, Lorenzo Alessandro, Fanizza Isabella, Trabacca Antonio
a Scientific Institute I.R.C.C.S. "Eugenio Medea", "La Nostra Famiglia", Unit for Severe disabilities in developmental age and young adults (Developmental Neurology and Neurorehabilitation) , Brindisi Research Centre , Brindisi , Italy.
b Outpatient Rehabilitation Centre - Association "La Nostra Famiglia" , Ostuni (Brindisi) , Italy.
Cogn Neuropsychiatry. 2018 Jul;23(4):254-265. doi: 10.1080/13546805.2018.1486182. Epub 2018 Jun 21.
Recent evidence suggests that impairments in social cognition are associated to the cognitive abilities needed to take several viewpoints in perceptual situations and body awareness. The aim of the current study was to investigate Visual Perspective Taking (VPT) and Body awareness performance in a group of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) compared with a group of children with Intellectual Disability (ID) and typically developing (TD) children.
Our groups were administered an IQ test and a VPT task, and body awareness tests.
Children with ASD or ID were more impaired in body awareness development compared to TD (p < .001) children. The ASD group differentiates largely from the other two groups in the mean VPT (p < .001) scores.
The current study provides a framework for considering social impairments in autism on a broader scale, including visuoperceptual and body awareness difficulties as a core contributor to social interaction difficulties.
最近的证据表明，社会认知障碍与在感知情境中采取多种观点所需的认知能力以及身体意识有关。本研究的目的是调查一组自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）儿童与一组智力障碍（ID）儿童和正常发育（TD）儿童相比的视觉观点采择（VPT）和身体意识表现。
我们对各小组进行了智商测试、VPT任务和身体意识测试。
与TD（p < .001）儿童相比，ASD或ID儿童在身体意识发展方面受损更严重。ASD组在平均VPT（p < .001）得分上与其他两组有很大差异。
本研究提供了一个框架，用于更广泛地考虑自闭症中的社会障碍，包括视觉感知和身体意识困难是社会互动困难的核心因素。
