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Studies in pattern detection in normal and autistic children. II. Reproduction and production of color sequences.
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It is concluded that autistic children are insensitive to differences in the structures present and tend to impose their own simple stereotyped patterns, while normal children impose such patterns in absence of structured input only, consistent with the hypothesis of an input processing deficit in autistic children.About:
This article is published in Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.The article was published on 1970-08-01. It has received 114 citations till now.read more
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The Weak Coherence Account: Detail-Focused Cognitive Style in Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Francesca Happé,Uta Frith +1 more
TL;DR: A review of over 50 empirical studies of coherence suggests robust findings of local bias in ASD, with mixed findings regarding weak global processing.
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Autism: beyond “theory of mind”
Uta Frith,Francesca Happé +1 more
TL;DR: The theory of mind account of autism has been remarkably successful in making specific predictions about the impairments in socialization, imagination and communication shown by people with autism, but cannot explain either the non-triad features of autism, or earlier experimental findings of abnormal assets and deficits on non-social tasks.
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Why do autistic individuals show superior performance on the block design task
Amitta Shah,Uta Frith +1 more
TL;DR: Autistic subjects, regardless of age and ability, performed better than controls when presented with unsegmented designs, suggesting that they need less of the normally required effort to segment a gestalt, and thus supports the hypothesis of weak central coherence as a characteristic of information processing in autism.
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An islet of ability in autistic children: a research note
Amitta Shah,Uta Frith +1 more
TL;DR: An aspect of cognitive functioning in autistic children was investigated by comparing their performance on the Children's Embedded Figures Test with that of MA-matched normal and MA- and CA-matched mentally retarded non-autistic children, and the autistic children were significantly more competent at this task.
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Autism: Towards an Integration of Clinical, Genetic, Neuropsychological, and Neurobiological Perspectives
TL;DR: A partial integration of the causal processes leading to autism requires an integration across different levels of enquiry, and provides a useful strategy for identifying key research questions, the limitations of existing hypotheses, and future research directions that are likely to prove fruitful.
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The perception and learning of temporal patterns.
W.R. Garner,Richard L. Gottwald +1 more
TL;DR: These consistently different effects of starting pattern and modality at low and high rates require a distinction between pattern perception at higher rates, and pattern learning at lower rates, which is unintegrated, derived, intellectualized and active.
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