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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"central coherence"”.
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Executive dysfunction and weak central coherence : neither theory suitably explains a core cognitive deficit in autism spectrum disorders
Theories of weak central coherence (WCC; a local detail-specific way of processing information that allows individuals to focus on and remember minutiae) and executive dysfunction (EF dysfunction; an inability to employ goal-directed cognition to plan, organize, and alternate between tasks, or to …
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Boundaries of the cognitive phenotype of autism: social cognition and central coherence in young people with autistic traits and their first degree relatives
… of Mind) and by tests of visual disembedding (central coherence). This study examined whether young people with some of the behavioural features of autism but not necessarily a diagnosis, would show this distinctive cognitive profile. In a sample of 60 young people with additional learning …
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Autism, new music technologies and cognition
Central coherence accounts of autism have shown dysfunction in the processing of local versus global information that may be the source of symptoms in social behavior, communication and repetitive behavior. An application was developed to measure cognitive abilities in central coherence tasks as …
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Biases in Children's Cognitive Styles: Investigating Local, Global, and Rule-Based Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorders and Typical Development
… adults with ASD. Three prominent theories, Weak Central Coherence (Frith, 1989), Systemizing (Baron-Cohen, 2002), and Executive Dysfunction Theory (Pennington & Ozonoff, 1996), may together provide a plausible explanation for the cognitive biases of individuals with ASD.</p><p>Weak Central …
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Cognitive task performances as biomarkers & candidate endophenotypes in childhood neurodevelopmental disorders: ADHD & autism
… between ADHD and ASD. Whereas, weak central coherence style as observed by a disregard for sentence context and impairment in response monitoring were in common to both disorders. Comorbidity was not associated with a more impaired cognitive profile than the pure groups. The comorbid …
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Reading words and reading minds: an investigation of the skills of children diagnosed with hyperlexia
… The notions of Relevance, Theory of Mind and Central Coherence are discussed and their application to Hyperlexia considered. The concluding discussion addresses a number of theoretical questions regarding the nature of Hyperlexia. Implications for intervention and possible future directions …
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Prototype effects in high functioning children with autism
… The claim is supported by other theories: weak central coherence (Frith, 1989; Frith & Happe, 1994) and a reduced perception of similarity (Plaisted, 2001). Additionally, supporting evidence suggests that individuals with autism do not show prototype effects (Klinger & Dawson, 2001; Plaisted, …
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Aesthetics, poetics, and cognition: a new minor literature by autists and modernists
… is reminiscent of Uta Frith’s theory of weak central coherence, which pathologizes autists for the way that they process information. Frith’s theory and the critical maxim that modernist texts are “fragmented” are both revealed as ideologies that flatten the texts and people that they are used …
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Can training paradigms enhance global processing style in people with Asperger Syndrome? A randomised experiment
Background and Aims: The Weak Central Coherence Theory (WCCT; Frith & Happé, 1994) has been developed to explain the local processing bias observed in people with autism. The two aims of the thesis are: 1) to investigate whether adults with Asperger syndrome have a local processing bias, and 2) to …