Shah A, Frith U
Lifecare NHS Trust, Croydon, Surrey, U.K.
J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 1993 Nov;34(8):1351-64. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1993.tb02095.x.
Systematic variations of the block design task were given to 20 autistic, 33 normal and 12 mildly retarded subjects. Designs were contrasted which were either "whole" or segmented, rotated or unrotated, and which did or did not contain obliques. Only segmentation, but neither of the spatial orientation factors, revealed a significant group difference. Autistic subjects, regardless of age and ability, performed better than controls when presented with unsegmented designs. This result suggests that they need less of the normally required effort to segment a gestalt, and thus supports the hypothesis of weak central coherence as a characteristic of information processing in autism.
对20名自闭症患者、33名正常人和12名轻度智障者进行了积木设计任务的系统变化测试。对比了“整体”或分割、旋转或未旋转以及包含或不包含斜线的设计。只有分割，而不是任何一个空间方向因素，显示出显著的组间差异。当呈现未分割的设计时，自闭症患者，无论年龄和能力如何，表现都优于对照组。这一结果表明，他们在分割一个完形时所需的正常努力较少，从而支持了弱中央连贯性假说，即自闭症信息处理的一个特征。
