目的:本研究调查了自闭症成年人是否比非自闭症成年人报告不同程度的心理意象生动。and,此外,如果自闭症与失语症有关,失语症被定义为自愿意象减少或缺失的状况。
方法:将临床诊断和自我识别的自闭症参与者与非自闭症参与者的心理意象生动度(视觉,声音,气味,味道,触摸,身体感觉和情绪感觉)和自闭症特征使用在线调查(N=121)。
结果:自闭症组的图像生动度得分明显低于非自闭症组(d=-0.44),除了有更高的比例的参与者在截止到失语症的得分。此外,对于情绪感觉观察到类似的差异(η2=0.11)。
结论:自闭症患者的视觉和情感心理意象的生动程度平均较低,在截止日期时出现的比例较高,被认为是有限的。
OBJECTIVE: The present study investigated whether autistic adults report different levels of mental imagery vividness than non-autistic adults, and, moreover, if autism is associated with aphantasia which is defined as a condition of reduced or absent voluntary imagery.
METHODS: Clinically diagnosed and self-identifying autistic participants were compared with non-autistic participants in their mental imagery vividness (vision, sound, smell, taste, touch, bodily sensation and emotional feeling) and autistic traits using an online survey (N = 121).
RESULTS: The autistic group scored significantly lower than the non-autistic group on imagery vividness (d = -0.44), in addition to having a higher proportion of participants scoring at cut-off for aphantasia. Moreover, a similar difference was observed for the emotional feel (η2 = 0.11).
CONCLUSIONS: The vividness of visual and emotional mental imagery was on average lower for autistic individuals, with a higher proportion presenting at cut-off to be considered an aphantasic.