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Peer reviewedRodgers, Jacqui – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2000
The performance of eight adults with Asperger syndrome was compared with the performance of controls on a range of perceptual tasks designed to test two models of perceptual deficit: the central coherence deficit model and the hierarchization deficit model. Tentative support for the hierarchization deficit model was demonstrated. (Contains ten…
Descriptors: Adults, Asperger Syndrome, Autism, Models
Direct linkPlaisted, Kate; Dobler, Veronica; Bell, Stuart; Davis, Greg – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2006
Several studies have reported that individuals with autism and Asperger's syndrome show a local processing bias on tasks involving features and configurations. This study assessed whether this bias results from differences in the perception of features or a cognitive bias to attend to features in autism as a consequence of a deficit in attending…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Autism, Asperger Syndrome, Bias
