A theoretical rut: revisiting and critically evaluating the generalized under/over‐connectivity hypothesis of autism

G Picci, SJ Gotts, KS Scherf - Developmental science, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In 2004, two papers proposed that pervasive functional under‐connectivity (Just et al.,) or a
trade‐off between excessive local connectivity at the cost of distal under‐connectivity …

Visuo-spatial performance in autism: a meta-analysis

A Muth, J Hönekopp, CM Falter - Journal of Autism and Developmental …, 2014 - Springer
Visuo-spatial skills are believed to be enhanced in autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). This
meta-analysis tests the current state of evidence for Figure Disembedding, Block Design …

Developmental heterochrony and the evolution of autistic perception, cognition and behavior

B Crespi - BMC medicine, 2013 - Springer
Background Autism is usually conceptualized as a disorder or disease that involves
fundamentally abnormal neurodevelopment. In the present work, the hypothesis that a suite …

Susceptibility to optical illusions varies as a function of the autism-spectrum quotient but not in ways predicted by local–global biases

PA Chouinard, KL Unwin, O Landry… - Journal of autism and …, 2016 - Springer
Individuals with autism spectrum disorder and those with autistic tendencies in non-clinical
groups are thought to have a perceptual style privileging local details over global …

Using quantitative and analytic EEG methods in the understanding of connectivity in autism spectrum disorders: a theory of mixed over-and under-connectivity

R Coben, I Mohammad-Rezazadeh… - Frontiers in human …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Neuroimaging technologies and research has shown that autism is largely a disorder of
neuronal connectivity. While advanced work is being done with fMRI, MRI-DTI, SPECT and …

Disrupted functional connectivity in dorsal and ventral attention networks during attention orienting in autism spectrum disorders

J Fitzgerald, K Johnson, E Kehoe, ALW Bokde… - Autism …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Background Attention orienting is a cognitive process that facilitates the movement of
attention focus from one location to another: this may be impaired in autism spectrum …

[HTML][HTML] Autistic fluid intelligence: Increased reliance on visual functional connectivity with diminished modulation of coupling by task difficulty

I Simard, D Luck, L Mottron, TA Zeffiro, I Soulières - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2015 - Elsevier
Different test types lead to different intelligence estimates in autism, as illustrated by the fact
that autistic individuals obtain higher scores on the Raven's Progressive Matrices (RSPM) …

Abnormal fronto‐parietal white matter organisation in the superior longitudinal fasciculus branches in autism spectrum disorders

J Fitzgerald, A Leemans, E Kehoe… - European Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Core features of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be underpinned by disrupted
functional and structural neural connectivity. Abnormal fronto‐parietal functional connectivity …

The local, global, and neural aspects of visuospatial processing in autism spectrum disorders

RK Kana, Y Liu, DL Williams, TA Keller, SE Schipul… - Neuropsychologia, 2013 - Elsevier
Behavioral studies have documented a relative advantage in some aspects of visuospatial
cognition in autism although it is not consistently found in higher functioning individuals with …

Regional homogeneity of adolescents with high‐functioning autism spectrum disorder and its association with symptom severity

X Zhao, S Zhu, Y Cao, P Cheng, Y Lin, Z Sun… - Brain and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background and purpose Previous studies have revealed abnormal regional homogeneity
(ReHo) in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD); however, there is little …