ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2018
Evidence of Reduced Global Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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41 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Inferential Emotion Tracking reveals impaired context-based emotion processing in individuals with high Autism Quotient scores.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Cognitive biases as an adaptive strategy in autism and schizophrenia spectrum: the compensation perspective on neurodiversity.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Review
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Abstract
Frith's original notion of 'weak central coherence' suggested that increased local processing in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) resulted from reduced global processing. More recent accounts have emphasised superior local perception and suggested intact global integration. However, tasks often place local and global processing in direct trade-off, making it difficult to determine whether group differences reflect reduced global processing, increased local processing, or both. We present two measures of global integration in which poor performance could not reflect increased local processing. ASD participants were slower to identify fragmented figures and less sensitive to global geometric impossibility than IQ-matched controls. These findings suggest that reduced global integration comprises one important facet of weak central coherence in ASD.
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