Jónsdóttir Lilja Kristín, Neufeld Janina, Falck-Ytter Terje, Kleberg Johan Lundin
Uppsala Child and Baby Lab, Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Box 1225, 751 42, Uppsala, Sweden.
Center of Neurodevelopmental Disorders at Karolinska Institutet (KIND), Centre for Psychiatry Research, Department of Women's & Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet & Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2023 Jan;53(1):495-502. doi: 10.1007/s10803-021-05378-x. Epub 2022 Feb 9.
Studies have supported two different hypotheses of reduced eye gaze in people with ASD; gaze avoidance and gaze indifference, while less is known about the role of anxiety. We tested these hypotheses using an eye-tracking paradigm that cued the eyes or mouth of emotional faces. Autistic children (n = 12, mean age 7 years) looked faster away from both eyes and mouths than controls (n = 22). This effect was not explained by anxiety symptoms. No difference was found in latency towards either area. These results indicate that attentional avoidance of autistic children is not specific to eyes, and that they do not show attentional indifference to eyes compared to controls. Atypicalities in visual scanning in ASD are possibly unrelated to specific facial areas.
研究支持了关于自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）患者目光注视减少的两种不同假说：目光回避和目光冷漠，而关于焦虑的作用则知之甚少。我们使用一种眼动追踪范式对这些假说进行了测试，该范式提示了情绪化面孔的眼睛或嘴巴。自闭症儿童（n = 12，平均年龄7岁）比对照组（n = 22）更快地将目光从眼睛和嘴巴移开。这种效应无法用焦虑症状来解释。在看向任一区域的潜伏期方面未发现差异。这些结果表明，自闭症儿童的注意力回避并非特定于眼睛，而且与对照组相比，他们对眼睛并未表现出注意力冷漠。ASD患者视觉扫描中的异常可能与特定面部区域无关。
