Davies S, Bishop D, Manstead A S, Tantam D
University of Manchester, U.K.
J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 1994 Sep;35(6):1033-57. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1994.tb01808.x.
Children with diagnoses of either autism or Asperger's syndrome were matched on measures of verbal mental age with nonautistic control children. They were tested on their abilities to process both facial and nonfacial stimuli. There were no significant differences between the low ability autistic and control groups, but the high ability autistic and Asperger's children performed significantly worse than controls across all tests. Group averages masked substantial individual variation. The results are seen as indicating a general perceptual deficit that is not specific to faces or emotions. This appears to be a common correlate of autism and Asperger's syndrome, rather than a core symptom.
被诊断患有自闭症或阿斯伯格综合征的儿童在语言心理年龄测量方面与非自闭症对照儿童进行了匹配。他们接受了处理面部和非面部刺激能力的测试。低能力自闭症组和对照组之间没有显著差异，但高能力自闭症和阿斯伯格儿童在所有测试中的表现均明显比对照组差。组平均水平掩盖了个体间的巨大差异。研究结果被视为表明存在一种并非特定于面孔或情绪的一般性感知缺陷。这似乎是自闭症和阿斯伯格综合征的一个共同关联因素，而非核心症状。
