What is the relationship between Aphantasia, Synaesthesia and Autism?
What is the relationship between Aphantasia, Synaesthesia and Autism?
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DOI：
10.1016/j.concog.2021.103087
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发表时间：
2021-02-03
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Simner, J.
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作者：
Dance, C. J.;Jaquiery, M.;Simner, J.
对于失语症患者来说，视觉意象缺失或明显受损。在这里，我们调查了失语症和其他两种神经发育状况之间的关系，这两种状况也与意象差异有关：通感和自闭症。在实验1a和1b中，我们询问了失语症和通感是否可以同时发生，这是一个重要的问题，因为通感与强烈的意象有关。以字形-颜色联觉为测试案例，我们发现联觉可以客观地诊断出失语症患者，这表明视觉意象不是联觉发生的必要条件。然而，失语症的影响类型的联觉经验（有利于？联系人？结束了吗投影仪？联觉--与联觉经验现象学有关的区别）。在实验2中，我们询问了失语症患者是否具有与自闭症相关的特征，这是一个重要的问题，因为自闭症？比如失语症与弱图像有关。我们发现，失语症患者比对照组报告了更多的自闭症特征，在想象力和社交技能方面存在弱点。
For people with aphantasia, visual imagery is absent or markedly impaired. Here, we investigated the relationship between aphantasia and two other neurodevelopmental conditions also linked to imagery differences: synaesthesia, and autism. In Experiment 1a and 1b, we asked whether aphantasia and synaesthesia can co-occur, an important question given that synaesthesia is linked to strong imagery. Taking grapheme-colour synaesthesia as a test case, we found that synaesthesia can be objectively diagnosed in aphantasics, suggesting visual imagery is not necessary for synaesthesia to occur. However, aphantasia influenced the type of synaesthesia experienced (favouring ?associator? over ?projector? synaesthesia -a distinction tied to the phenomenology of the synaesthetic experience). In Experiment 2, we asked whether aphantasics have traits associated with autism, an important question given that autism ? like aphantasia ? is linked to weak imagery. We found that aphantasics reported more autistic traits than controls, with weaknesses in imagination and social skills.