Contagious and spontaneous yawning in autistic and typically developing children
Contagious and spontaneous yawning in autistic and typically developing children
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自闭症和正常发育儿童的传染性和自发性打哈欠
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2009
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Maria Esposito Ziello
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F. Giganti;Maria Esposito Ziello
先前的研究表明，当自闭症儿童看到别人打哈欠时，没有传染效应。这一结果可能是由于自闭症儿童在与人类伴侣建立相互凝视行为方面存在困难。此外，自闭症儿童的传染效应可能会根据他们的功能程度而改变。我们评估了打哈欠的传染效应，在不同程度的自闭症儿童和正常发育的儿童暴露于观看和听到别人打哈欠。此外，评估和比较三组自发打哈欠的频率和每日分布。自闭症谱系障碍可以选择性地影响某些行为。在自闭症儿童中，打哈欠的传染效应在很大程度上被削弱了，而自发的产生和日常分布却没有。这些结果支持了传染性哈欠和社会能力之间存在联系的假设，以及自发哈欠和传染性哈欠背后存在不同的过程。
Previous studies have reported the absence of a contagious effect when autistic children view another’s yawning. This result could be due to the difficulty of autistic children in establishing reciprocal gaze behaviour with human partners. Furthermore, the presence of a contagious effect in autistic children could change according their degree of functioning. We evaluated the contagious effect of yawning in both autistic children with different degrees of functioning and in typically developing children exposed to the viewing and hearing of others yawn. Furthermore the frequency and the daily distribution of spontaneous yawning were evaluated and compared among three groups. Autism Spectrum Disorder can selectively affect some behaviour. In autistic children the contagious effect of yawning is largely impaired, whereas the spontaneous production and daily distribution are not. These results support the hypothesis of a link between contagious yawning and social abilities and the existence of different processes underlying spontaneous and contagious yawning.