自闭症儿童面孔认知加工的研究进展

面孔识别是视知觉加工的一项重要研究领域,也是一种重要的心理能力和社交技巧。自闭症儿童在识别他人面部表情时具有一定困难,影响了他们的社会交往。首先对自闭症视知觉研究进行了简要介绍,在此基础上对新近自闭症儿童面孔识别的实证研究进行了梳理,最后通过与正常控制组儿童的对比,分类综述了自闭症儿童面孔加工的典型特点,并针对自闭症儿童面孔认知加工与其症状关系中尚存的问题进行了思考。

A Review on the Autistic Children＇s Recognition of Facial Expression

Facial expression is an important mental ability and social skill in the field of visual perception process- ing. Autistic children＇s disabilities in recognizing other people＇s facial expressions impede their social functions. This pa- per concisely introduced the previous researches about the autism＇s visual perception, and elaborated the empirical studies on the facial expression of autism. By compared with the normal group, the typical characters of autistic children have been classified. The study also discussed the problems about the relationship between the progress of autism＇s facial recog- nition and their cllnical symptoms.