Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, P-217 Biological Sciences Building, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada.
Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Dr Penfield Ave, Montreal, QC H3A 1B1, Canada.
Conscious Cogn. 2018 Oct;65:271-279. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2018.09.002. Epub 2018 Sep 21.
Although individuals with an autism spectrum disorder display impaired function across several social and behavioral domains, they possess intact, and often superior visual processing abilities for local relative to global aspects of their visual environment. To address whether differences in visual processing similarly vary within typical individuals as a function of their level of social competence, using the Navon hierarchical figures task, here we examined the relationship between global-local visual processing style and the number of autism-like traits in a large sample of 434 typically developed persons. In line with the existing literature, our data indicated an overall global processing bias. However, this overall visual processing style did not vary with participants' number of autism-like traits. These results suggest that the visual processing of Navon figures may be different in typical individuals vs. those with an autism spectrum disorder, with those differences potentially reflecting specific stimulus and task settings.
尽管自闭症谱系障碍患者在多个社会和行为领域表现出功能障碍，但他们拥有完整的、通常优于其视觉环境局部方面的视觉处理能力。为了确定视觉处理方面的差异是否也会根据个体的社交能力水平而在典型个体中发生变化，我们使用纳冯层级图形任务，在此，我们在一个由 434 名典型个体组成的大样本中，检查了全局-局部视觉处理风格与自闭症样特征数量之间的关系。与现有文献一致，我们的数据表明存在整体的全局处理偏向。然而，这种整体视觉处理风格并不随参与者自闭症样特征数量的变化而变化。这些结果表明，纳冯图形的视觉处理在典型个体与自闭症谱系障碍患者中可能有所不同，这些差异可能反映了特定的刺激和任务设置。
