Hobson R P, Ouston J, Lee A
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, London.
Psychol Med. 1988 Nov;18(4):911-23. doi: 10.1017/s0033291700009843.
Autistic and non-autistic mentally retarded adolescents and young adults were individually matched for age and verbal ability and were given tasks in which they chose photographs of faces for emotionally expressive voices, and photographs of non-emotional things or events to accompany recorded sounds. The results were that relative to control subjects, autistic individuals performed less well on the emotion tasks than on the non-emotion tasks. The findings suggest that autistic individuals have a disability in recognizing bodily expressions of emotion, and that there is a degree of task-specificity to this impairment.
对患有自闭症和未患自闭症的智障青少年及青年成人，根据年龄和语言能力进行个体匹配，并让他们完成一些任务，即针对表达情感的声音选择面部照片，以及针对录制的声音选择无情感的事物或事件照片。结果表明，与对照组相比，自闭症个体在情感任务上的表现不如在非情感任务上的表现。研究结果提示，自闭症个体在识别身体的情感表达方面存在缺陷，且这种缺陷具有一定程度的任务特异性。
