College of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, 116029, China.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2024 Jun;54(6):2254-2265. doi: 10.1007/s10803-023-05964-1. Epub 2023 Apr 4.
Individuals diagnosed with autism are often thought to face challenges in comprehensive metaphors, even for the individuals without intellectual impairment. This study is to investigate the features and mechanisms of metaphor integration in the process of metaphor comprehension in real-time and context-free situations in autism, as well as the influence of the mental complexity of metaphor. Twenty autistic adults and twenty typically developing peers carried out a Lexical Decision Task and a Recognition Task. The results of the study showed that, there are deficiencies in real-time metaphor comprehension in autistic adults without intellectual impairment. It may caused by their relatively inefficient integration of metaphor semantics. This mechanism was equally pronounced in the metaphors with different mental complexity.
被诊断为自闭症的个体，即使没有智力障碍，通常也被认为在综合隐喻方面面临挑战。本研究旨在实时、无上下文的情况下，探究自闭症个体在隐喻理解过程中隐喻整合的特征和机制，以及隐喻心理复杂性的影响。20 名自闭症成人和 20 名典型发展同龄人完成了词汇判断任务和识别任务。研究结果表明，无智力障碍的自闭症成人在实时隐喻理解方面存在缺陷，这可能是由于他们对隐喻语义的整合效率相对较低所致。这种机制在不同心理复杂性的隐喻中同样明显。
