关于自闭症孩子眼神交流困难的一个研究

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这项研究表示,他们并不是对别人的脸部表情不感兴趣,相反的在实验中,自闭症孩子却化了更多的时间来研究照片中人的眼睛,但是在生活中,他们几乎不去看别人的脸部表情,或是眼神交流,这个现象还有待进一步研究,但是或许可以预示,对于这些孩子来讲,生活中他们碰到的一个人的脸部,和这个环境中的其他部分没有多大的差别,所以他们不会太关注在表情上.换句话说,他们对"脸"或"眼神"所能表达的社交方面的信息不能了解或领会.


Autistic Toddlers Easily Study Photos of Faces
-- Robert Preidt
HealthDay

THURSDAY, May 3 (HealthDay News) -- Even though it's often difficult for toddlers with autism spectrum disorders to make eye contact or to focus on people's faces, they have little trouble looking at photographs of faces, U.S. researchers report.A team from the Yale University School of Medicine also found that toddlers with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) spent most of the time examining the eyes of people in photographs."This is a surprising finding, given that avoiding eye contact is one of the classic hallmarks of autism," Katarzyna Chawarska, an assistant professor at the Yale Child Study Center, said in a prepared statement."The results are preliminary and will require further replication and extension, but they suggest that pictures of faces and eyes are, by themselves, neither inherently unattractive nor inherently adverse to toddlers with ASD," she said."Therefore, the limited attention to faces and eyes observed in natural settings may be due to the fact that faces don't stand out to them as much as other objects in the environment," Chawarska said. "There also may be heightened arousal related to the complex social and perceptual context in which faces usually occur."The researchers used an eye-tracking system to collect information on the toddlers' visual scanning patterns and their recognition of faces and abstract patterns.The study was expected to be presented this week at the International Meeting for Autism Research in Seattle.More informationThe U.S. National Institute of Mental Health has more about autism spectrum disorders.