School of Occupational Therapy, Social Work and Speech Pathology, Curtin University, Kent Street, Bentley, Perth, WA, Australia.
Cooperative Research Centre for Living with Autism (Autism CRC), Long Pocket Brisbane, Indooroopilly, QLD, Australia.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2019 Oct;49(10):4009-4018. doi: 10.1007/s10803-019-04104-y.
Understanding the underlying visual scanning patterns of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) during the processing of complex emotional scenes remains limited. This study compared the complex emotion recognition performance of adults with ASD (n = 23) and matched neurotypical participants (n = 25) using the Reading the Mind in Films Task. Behaviourally, both groups exhibited similar emotion recognition accuracy. Visual fixation time towards key social regions of each stimuli was examined via eye tracking. Individuals with ASD demonstrated significantly longer fixation time towards the non-social areas. No group differences were evident for the facial and body regions of all characters in the social scenes. The findings provide evidence of the heterogeneity associated with complex emotion processing in individuals with ASD.
理解自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）个体在处理复杂情绪场景时的潜在视觉扫描模式仍然有限。本研究使用电影阅读思维任务比较了 ASD 成人（n=23）和匹配的神经典型参与者（n=25）的复杂情绪识别表现。行为上，两组的情绪识别准确性相似。通过眼动追踪检查了每个刺激物的关键社会区域的视觉注视时间。ASD 个体在非社会区域的注视时间明显更长。在社会场景中所有角色的面部和身体区域，两组之间没有差异。这些发现为 ASD 个体在复杂情绪处理中存在的异质性提供了证据。
