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Happe, Francesca; Frith, Uta – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2006
"Weak central coherence" refers to the detail-focused processing style proposed to characterise autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The original suggestion of a core deficit in central processing resulting in failure to extract global form/meaning, has been challenged in three ways. First, it may represent an outcome of superiority in local…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Social Cognition, Bias