Parents of children with Asperger Syndrome: What is the cognitive phenotype?
Parents of children with Asperger Syndrome: What is the cognitive phenotype?
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DOI：
10.1162/jocn.1997.9.4.548
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发表时间：
1997-07-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Hammer, J
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作者：
BaronCohen, S;Hammer, J
在自闭症患者中发现了两种认知异常：嵌入图形任务的优势和“心理理论”的缺陷。利用这些任务的成人版本，目前的研究调查了患有阿斯伯格综合症的儿童的父母是否可能表现出这些异常的轻微变异，正如可能从遗传假设中预测的那样。两项测量结果均有显著差异。在嵌入图形任务中，父母比对照组明显快得多，在解释面部眼睛区域的照片时，他们的精神状态的准确性略低，但明显较低。结果讨论了在更广泛的认知表型的阿斯伯格综合症和他们的条件的认知神经科学理论的含义。
Two cognitive anomalies have been found in autism: a superiority on the Embedded Figures Task and a deficit in ''theory of mind.'' Using adult-level versions of these tasks, the present study investigated if parents of children with Asperger Syndrome might show a mild variant of these anomalies, as might be predicted from a genetic hypothesis. Significant differences were found on both measures. Parents were significantly faster than controls on the Embedded Figures Task and slightly but significantly less accurate at interpreting photographs of the eye region of the face in terms of mental states. The results are discussed in terms of the broader cognitive phenotype of Asperger Syndrome and in terms of their implications for cognitive neuroscientific theories of the condition.