Do individuals with autism and Asperger’s syndrome utilize prior knowledge when pairing stimuli?
Do individuals with autism and Asperger’s syndrome utilize prior knowledge when pairing stimuli?
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自闭症和阿斯伯格综合症患者在配对刺激时是否会利用先验知识？
DOI：
10.1111/1467-7687.00185
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发表时间：
2001
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
P. Mitchell
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作者：
D. Ropar;P. Mitchell
虽然一些研究表明自闭症患者可以适当地使用先验知识，但其他研究发现这可能是一个特定的弱点。目前的研究的目的是调查是否与自闭症和自闭症综合征的个人利用先验知识时，配对对象的颜色。研究人员向参与者展示了一些常见物体的卡片，并要求他们将两种颜色中的一种配对。一些目标物体的颜色不合适（例如蓝色香蕉），允许参与者将其与蓝色或黄色配对。结果表明，大多数参与者选择了相关的表面颜色的偏好。这表明，除了5岁的正常发育儿童外，自闭症和自闭症综合征患者的配对与对照组一样，都是由先前的知识决定的。然而，那些患有自闭症和中度学习困难的人比其他一些群体受先前知识的影响更小。
While several studies suggest that individuals with autism use prior knowledge appropriately, others have found that this may be a particular area of weakness. The aim of the current study was to investigate whether individuals with autism and Asperger’s syndrome utilize prior knowledge when pairing objects with colours. Participants were presented with cards illustrating common objects and asked to pair them with one of two colour patches. Some target objects were coloured inappropriately (e.g. blue banana), allowing a participant to pair it either with blue or yellow. Results indicated that a majority of participants chose the associated in preference to the surface colour. This suggests that prior knowledge governed pairing in many individuals with autism and Asperger’s syndrome as it did in comparison groups, except in typically developing children aged 5 years. However, those with autism and moderate learning difficulties were less affected by prior knowledge than some of the other groups.