OFDLab - Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Via Matteo del Ben, 5B, 38068, Rovereto, Italy.
Department of Psychology, University of Milano - Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2022 Mar;52(3):1092-1105. doi: 10.1007/s10803-021-05015-7. Epub 2021 Apr 17.
In this study, we investigated whether the difficulties in body motion (BM) perception may led to deficit in emotion recognition in Autism spectrum disorder (ASD). To this aim, individuals with high-functioning ASD were asked to recognise fearful, happy, and neutral BM depicted as static images or dynamic point-light and full-light displays. Results showed slower response times in participants with ASD only in recognising dynamic stimuli, but no group differences in accuracy. This suggests that i) a deficit in action chaining mechanism in ASD may prevent the recognition of dynamic BM automatically and rapidly, ii) individuals with ASD and high cognitive resources can develop alternative-but equally successful-strategies to recognise emotional body expressions. Implications for treatment are discussed.
在这项研究中，我们研究了身体运动（BM）感知的困难是否会导致自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）的情绪识别缺陷。为此，我们要求高功能 ASD 个体识别静止图像或动态点光和全光显示的恐惧、快乐和中性 BM。结果显示，只有在识别动态刺激时，ASD 参与者的反应时间较慢，但在准确性方面没有组间差异。这表明，i）ASD 中的动作连锁机制缺陷可能会阻止自动和快速识别动态 BM，ii）具有高认知资源的 ASD 个体可以发展替代但同样成功的策略来识别情绪身体表达。讨论了对治疗的影响。
