在自闭症中观察面部pareidolia图像的变化
Jessica Galli1,2, Marika Vezzoli3,4, Erika Loi5,6
1Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy. jessica.galli@unibs.it.
Scientific reports
|April 28, 2025
概括
患有自闭症谱系障碍 (ASD) 的青少年表现出非典型的面部视觉扫描,不太关注眼睛,更多关注嘴巴和非面部区域. 这表明改变面部处理有助于ASD的社交互动挑战.
科学领域:
- 神经科学是一个神经科学.
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
- 认知科学 认知科学
背景情况:
- 面部处理对于社会认知和互动至关重要.
- 面部处理方面的缺陷在自闭症谱系障碍 (ASD) 中很常见.
- 在ASD中出现这些赤字的根本原因在很大程度上仍然不清楚.
研究的目的:
- 在面部识别任务期间调查高功能自闭症青少年的视觉注意力模式.
- 为了比较患有自闭症和典型发育 (TD) 对照个体之间的眼睛跟踪数据.
主要方法:
- 在被诊断为高功能ASD的青少年身上使用了眼睛追踪方法,并与TD对照进行了匹配.
- 使用Arcimboldo-likeFace-n-Food图像进行了面部pareidolia任务,面部相似度不同.
- 记录的空间眼睛固定分布在五个区域:面部,眼睛,口腔,补充面部区域 (CFA) 和非面部区域.
主要成果:
- 与TD对照组相比,患有ASD的个体提供的面部反应明显较少.
- 患有自闭症的参与者表现出对口腔,CFA和非面部区域的固定性增加.
- 主要固定在脸部和眼睛区域的TD控制器.
结论:
- 非典型的视觉扫描策略,包括减少对眼睛的关注,可能会导致ASD的面部处理受损.
- 研究结果支持眼睛避开假设,表明眼睛的情感信息可能会给ASD患者带来不适.
- 了解这些视觉扫描差异是解决ASD社会互动困难的关键.
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