Absolute pitch in autism: A case study

L Mottron, I Peretz, S Belleville, N Rouleau - Neurocase, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
We present the case study of QC, a low-functioning adolescent with autism, who possesses
the special ability of absolute pitch. QC participated in an in-depth assessment of pitch …

So what exactly is autism?

D Milton - 2012 - kar.kent.ac.uk
Autism was once considered to be an extremely rare 'disorder'that affected a tiny proportion
of the population, however in recent decades the numbers of those diagnosed as being …

Atypical integration of motion signals in autism spectrum conditions

CE Robertson, A Martin, CI Baker, S Baron-Cohen - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Vision in Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) is characterized by enhanced perception of
local elements, but impaired perception of global percepts. Deficits in coherent motion …

A developmental perspective of global and local visual perception in autism spectrum disorder

J Guy, L Mottron, C Berthiaume, A Bertone - Journal of autism and …, 2019 - Springer
Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) demonstrate superior performances on
visuo-spatial tasks emphasizing local information processing; however, findings from studies …

Mapping developmental trajectories of attention and working memory in fragile X syndrome: developmental freeze or developmental change?

K Cornish, V Cole, E Longhi… - Development and …, 2013 - cambridge.org
Fragile X syndrome (FXS) has a characteristic cognitive “signature” that by late childhood
includes core weaknesses in attention and working memory (WM), but their earlier …

Analogical reasoning ability in autistic and typically developing children

K Morsanyi, KJ Holyoak - Developmental science, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Recent studies (eg Dawson et al., 2007) have reported that autistic people perform in the
normal range on the Raven Progressive Matrices test, a formal reasoning test that requires …

Global–local visual processing in high functioning children with autism: Structural vs. implicit task biases

G Iarocci, JA Burack, DI Shore, L Mottron… - Journal of autism and …, 2006 - Springer
Global–local processing was examined in high-functioning children with autism and in
groups of typically developing children. In experiment 1, the effects of structural bias were …

The use of prior knowledge for perceptual inference is preserved in ASD

S Van de Cruys, S Vanmarcke… - Clinical …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
An amorphous collection of black and white patches (so-called Mooney images) can be
perceived dramatically differently before versus after exposure to the natural source image …

Missing the big picture: Impaired development of global shape processing in autism

K Suzanne Scherf, B Luna, R Kimchi… - Autism …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Individuals with autism exhibit hypersensitivity to local elements of the input, which may
interfere with the ability to group visual elements perceptually. We investigated the …

Enhanced visual statistical learning in adults with autism.

ME Roser, RN Aslin, R McKenzie, D Zahra… - …, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are often characterized as
having social engagement and language deficiencies, but a sparing of visuospatial …