Does Gaze Direction Modulate Facial Expression Processing in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder?
Does Gaze Direction Modulate Facial Expression Processing in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder?
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01321.x
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发表时间：
2009-07-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Hasegawa, Toshikazu
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作者：
Akechi, Hironori;Senju, Atsushi;Hasegawa, Toshikazu
两个实验调查了患有自闭症谱系障碍(ASD)的儿童在解读面部表情时是否整合了相关的交流信号，如凝视方向。在实验1中，典型的发育儿童(9-14岁；n=14)比那些动机倾向不一致的儿童更快地发现伴随着一致的动机倾向的注视方向的面部表情(即回避眼睛凝视的回避面部表情)。ASD儿童(9~14岁，n=14)不受面部刺激注视方向的影响。这一发现在实验2中也得到了重复，实验2只向发育正常的儿童(n=10)和患有自闭症的儿童(n=10)展示了面部的眼睛区域。这些结果表明，患有自闭症的儿童不会根据他们的情感或动机倾向来编码和/或整合多种交流信号。
Two experiments investigated whether children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) integrate relevant communicative signals, such as gaze direction, when decoding a facial expression. In Experiment 1, typically developing children (9-14 years old; n = 14) were faster at detecting a facial expression accompanying a gaze direction with a congruent motivational tendency (i.e., an avoidant facial expression with averted eye gaze) than those with an incongruent motivational tendency. Children with ASD (9-14 years old; n = 14) were not affected by the gaze direction of facial stimuli. This finding was replicated in Experiment 2, which presented only the eye region of the face to typically developing children (n = 10) and children with ASD (n = 10). These results demonstrated that children with ASD do not encode and/or integrate multiple communicative signals based on their affective or motivational tendency.