Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are developmental disorders which are thought primarily
to affect social functioning. However, there is now a growing body of evidence that unusual …

Cerebral visual impairment (CVI) comprises visual malfunction due to retro‐chiasmal visual
and visual association pathway pathology. This can be isolated or accompany anterior …

Based on Francesca Happé's best-selling textbook, Autism: An Introduction to Psychological
Theory, this completely new edition provides a concise overview of contemporary …

A rich collection of empirical findings accumulated over the past three decades attests to the
diversity of traits that constitute the autism phenotypes. It is unclear whether subsets of these …

Within the cognitive neuroscience literature, discussion of the functional role of the superior
temporal sulcus (STS) has traditionally been divided into two domains; one focuses on its …

Individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) have significant visuomotor processing
deficits, atypical motoric behavior, and often substantial problems connecting socially. We …

Atypical attention, while not a diagnostic feature, is common in individuals with autism
spectrum disorders (ASD). The study of these atypicalities has recently gained in both …

In individuals with autism or autism-spectrum-disorder (ASD), conflicting results have been
reported regarding the processing of biological motion tasks. As biological motion …

Disorders in verbal and emotional communication and imitation, social reciprocity and
higher order cognition observed in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are …

Individuals with autism are often characterized as 'seeing the trees, but not the forest'—
attuned to individual details in the visual world at the expense of the global percept they …