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Direct linkJarrold, Christopher; Gilchrist, Iain D.; Bender, Alison – Developmental Science, 2005
Individuals with autism show relatively strong performance on tasks that require them to identify the constituent parts of a visual stimulus. This is assumed to be the result of a bias towards processing the local elements in a display that follows from a weakened ability to integrate information at the global level. The results of the current…
Descriptors: Autism, Task Analysis, Performance, Visual Stimuli
