ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2013
Global/local processing in autism: not a disability, but a disinclination.
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83 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Visuo-spatial performance in autism: a meta-analysis.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2014Pooled it
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- Linking Subclinical Autistic Traits and Perceptual Category Learning.The European journal of neuroscience · 2025Article
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- Symmetry Detection in Autistic Adults Benefits from Local Processing in a Contour Integration Task.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
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Abstract
It is widely suggested that ASD is characterized by atypical local/global processing, but the published findings are contradictory. In an effort to resolve this question, we tested a large group of children on both a free-choice task and an instructed task using hierarchical local-global stimuli. We find that although children with autism showed a reduced preference to report global properties of a stimulus when given a choice, their ability to process global properties when instructed to do so is unimpaired. These findings support prior claims that people with ASD show a disinclination, not a disability, in global processing, and highlight the broader question of whether other characteristics of autism may also reflect disinclinations rather than disabilities.
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