自闭症儿童的心理理论与中心信息整合的关系探讨

自闭症儿童的心理理论一直是儿童心理理论研究的重要领域,自闭症儿童身上心理理论缺失这一领域特殊性的加工缺损与弱的中心信息整合这一领域一般性的加工异常之问的关系研究逐渐受到了广泛关注。在阐述自闭症领域的心理理论研究,并介绍弱的中心信息整合理论的基本观点和实验证据之后,在此探讨了两者之间的关系,包括两者相互独立的观点、相互关联的观点以及其他的不同观点,并对今后的研究方向做出了展望。

The Links Between Theory of Mind and Central Coherence in Autism

Autistic children's theory of mind was a very important field in the t heory-of-mind research. Importance has been gradually attached to the poss ib le links between domain-specific impairment represented by the lack of "theory o f mind" and domain-general abnormalities represented by weak central coherence i n autism. In this paper, the research of theory of mind in autism was firstly in troduced, and then the theory and empirical evidence of weak central coherence i n autism were presented. The possible links between the two were explored, in cluding the ideas that they are functionally related, the ideas that they are se parable and other ideas. Some brief comments were made about the future directio n of the research.