Hobson R P
J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 1986 May;27(3):321-42. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1986.tb01836.x.
Groups of MA-matched autistic, normal and non-autistic retarded children were tested for their ability to choose drawn and photographed facial expressions of emotion to "go with" a person videotaped in gestures, vocalizations and contexts indicative of four emotional states. Although both autistic and control subjects were adept in choosing drawings of non-personal objects to correspond with videotaped cues, the autistic children were markedly impaired in selecting the appropriate faces for the videotaped expressions and contexts. Within the autistic group, the children's performance in this task of emotion recognition was related to MA. It is suggested that autistic children have difficulty in recognizing how different expressions of particular emotions are associated with each other, and that this might contribute to their failure to understand the emotional states of other people.
对年龄匹配的自闭症儿童、正常儿童和非自闭症发育迟缓儿童进行了测试，以考察他们根据录像中人物的手势、发声及情境（这些情境表明了四种情绪状态）来选择所画面部表情及照片面部表情与之“匹配”的能力。尽管自闭症儿童和对照组儿童都能熟练地选择与录像线索相符的非人物物体的图画，但自闭症儿童在为录像中的表情和情境选择合适面孔方面明显受损。在自闭症儿童组内，儿童在这项情绪识别任务中的表现与智龄有关。研究表明，自闭症儿童在识别特定情绪的不同表情如何相互关联方面存在困难，而这可能导致他们无法理解他人的情绪状态。
