自闭症成年人对他们的相对面部识别能力有洞察力
Bayparvah Kaur Gehdu1, Clare Press2,3, Katie L H Gray4
1Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK.
Scientific reports
|August 1, 2024
概括
自闭症成年人可以准确地评估他们的面部识别能力,这与之前关于元认知缺陷的建议相反. 这项研究发现,自我报告的困难与客观绩效指标之间存在显著的相关性.
科学领域:
- 神经发育障碍 神经发育障碍
- 认知心理学 认知心理学
- 社会认知是指社会认知.
背景情况:
- 终身面部识别困难的评估是使用像PI20这样的自我报告问卷.
- 之前的研究表明,自闭症患者可能有超认知缺陷,损害了面部识别的自我评估.
- 这种拟议的缺陷意味着自我报告的面部识别能力 (PI20分数) 和客观表现 (例如,剑桥面部记忆测试) 之间的脱节.
研究的目的:
- 为了研究自我报告的面部识别能力和自闭症成年人的客观表现之间的关系.
- 为了确定自闭症个体是否可以准确地推断出他们的面部识别障碍相对于普通人群.
主要方法:
- 77名自闭症成年人填写了PI20问卷.
- 参与者还通过使用剑桥面部记忆测试的两个变体进行了性能测试.
- 统计分析检查了PI20分数与客观面部识别性能之间的相关性.
主要成果:
- 在自闭症成年人中,在剑桥面部记忆测试的两个变体上,PI20分数和表现之间观察到显著的相关性.
- 这些发现与之前的报道相矛盾,这些报道表明缺乏相关性和元认知缺陷.
- 在自闭症样本中发现了各种各样的面部识别能力,从平均水平到发育性prosopagnosia水平,独立于非语言智力或自闭症严重程度.
结论:
- 自闭症成年人表现出精确推断他们面部识别能力的能力.
- 这些发现挑战了自闭症个体在面部识别自我评估方面普遍存在的元认知缺陷的概念.
- 面部识别能力在自闭症中具有很高的变化,并不能仅仅由认知或临床因素来解释.
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