The authors conclude from a range of literature relevant to the autistic condition that atypical
strategies for the allocation of attention are central to the condition. This assertion is …

Research studies on sensory issues in autism, including those based on questionnaires,
autobiographical accounts, retrospective video observations and early experimental …

Deficits in pragmatic language ability are common to a number of clinical populations, for
example, right-hemisphere damage (RHD), Autism and traumatic brain injury (TBI). In these …

Frith has argued that people with autism show “weak central coherence,” an unusual bias
toward piecemeal rather than configurational processing and a reduction in the normal …

Background: According to predictions from the Weak Central Coherence (WCC) theory for
perceptual processing, persons with autism should display a tendency to focus on minute …

KC Plaisted-Grant 2015 Reduced Generalization in Autism: An Alternative to Weak Central
Coherence Kate C. Plaisted This chapter Page 1 KC Plaisted-Grant 2015 Reduced …

A multi‐modal abnormality in the integration of parts and whole has been proposed to
account for a bias toward local stimuli in individuals with autism (Frith, 1989; Mottron & …

Studies of the perceptual performance of individuals with autism have focused, to a large
extent, on two domains of visual behavior, one associated with face processing and the …

In contrast to typically developing children, children with autism rarely exhibit cooperative
social behavior. To examine whether this problem reflects global developmental delays or …

Although circumscribed interests are a hallmark characteristic of autism spectrum disorders,
providing a means for quantifying their functional impairment has proven difficult. We …