Visual perspective taking impairment in children with autistic spectrum disorder
Visual perspective taking impairment in children with autistic spectrum disorder
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DOI：
10.1016/j.cognition.2009.07.007
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发表时间：
2009-10-01
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影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Frith, Uta
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作者：
Hamilton, Antonia F. de C.;Brindley, Rachel;Frith, Uta
典型的发展和神经影像学研究的证据表明，第二级视觉视角采择--不同的人可能在同一时间以不同的方式看待同一事物的知识--是一项心智化任务。因此，我们认为自闭症儿童在典型的心智化任务（如错误信念）中失败，他们在第二级视觉透视图中的表现也很差。然而，关于这个问题的先前数据是不确定的。我们重新研究了这个问题，测试一组23名年轻的自闭症儿童，年龄在8岁左右，言语心理年龄在4岁左右，三组典型的儿童（n = 60），年龄从4岁到8岁不等的2级视觉透视任务和一个密切匹配的心理旋转任务。结果表明，自闭症儿童有困难的视觉透视相比，需要心理旋转的任务，相对于典型的儿童。此外，在水平2的视觉观点采择任务的表现与心理理论的表现相关。这些发现解决了以往自闭症视觉透视图的研究中的差异，并证明了2级视觉透视图是一个心智化任务。(C)2009爱思唯尔有限公司版权所有。
Evidence from typical development and neuroimaging studies suggests that level 2 visual perspective taking - the knowledge that different people may see the same thing differently at the same time - is a mentalising task. Thus, we would expect children with autism, who fail typical mentalising tasks like false belief, to perform poorly on level 2 visual perspective taking as well. However, prior data on this issue are inconclusive. We re-examined this question, testing a group of 23 young autistic children, aged around 8 years with a verbal mental age of around 4 years and three groups of typical children (n = 60) ranging in age from 4 to 8 years on a level 2 visual perspective task and a closely matched mental rotation task. The results demonstrate that autistic children have difficulty with visual perspective taking compared to a task requiring mental rotation, relative to typical children. Furthermore, performance on the level 2 visual perspective taking task correlated with theory of mind performance. These findings resolve discrepancies in previous studies of visual perspective taking in autism, and demonstrate that level 2 visual perspective taking is a mentalising task. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.