Frith and Happé (1994) argue that individuals with autism exhibit ‘weak central coherence’: an inability to integrate elements of information into coherent wholes. Some authors have speculated that a higher-level impairment might be present in the magnocellular visual pathway in autism, and furthermore, that this might account for weak central coherence, at least at the visuospatial level. We a...

Despite elegant behavioral descriptions of abnormalities for processing emotional facial expressions and biological motion in autism, identification of the neural mechanisms underlying these abnormalities remains a critical and largely unmet challenge. We compared brain activity with dynamic and static facial expressions in participants with and without high-functioning autism using event-relat...

Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by restricted interests and repetitive behavior, as well deficit in communication skills daily social interaction. ASD are also at risk for developing disruptive such noncompliance which have negative impact academic functioning. Excessive can be decreased increasing positive alternative compliance behavior modification. This study a...

BACKGROUND Recognition of individual faces is an integral part of both interpersonal interactions and successful functioning within a social group. Therefore, it is of considerable interest that individuals with autism and related conditions have selective deficits in face recognition (sparing nonface object recognition). METHOD We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study fa...

One of the core defining components of autism is impairment in communication, typically manifested as a delay in speech development. To date, neuroimaging studies have shed limited light on the mechanisms behind delay in speech development in autism. We performed magnetoencephalographic-based auditory language mapping in 2 cases of high-functioning autism. Overall, 2 distinct characteristics we...

This paper focuses on the relationship of genius with certain forms autism. It synthesizes some results two ongoing research activities. The first one concerns investigation creativity and arts in digital age, while second an educational experience to support socialization people Autism Spectrum Disorder.The was based storytelling, drama, programmable toy robots.Our emerged that low functioning...

The project aims at comparing typical and autistic participants with respect to their processing of the scalar implicature not all associated with the weak quantifier some. Highfunctioning autists often show atypical performance with respect to pragmatic aspects of language processing, including difficulties with the processing of defeasible reasoning, pragmatic inferences and linguistic inform...

This study assessed attachment security in adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders, using the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI; George, Kaplan, & Main, 1996). Of 20 participants, three were classified as securely attached, the same proportion as would be expected in a general clinical sample. Participants' AAIs were less coherent and lower in reflective function than those of cont...

An ongoing debate in developmental cognitive neuroscience is whether individuals with autism are able to learn prototypical category representations from multiple exemplars. Prototype learning and memory were examined in a group of high-functioning autistic boys and young men, using a classic paradigm in which participants learned to classify novel dot patterns into one of two categories. Parti...

INTRODUCTION Autism is an early developmental disorder with cognitive impairments that leads to learning and social integration disabilities. The characterization of memory functions in individuals with autism has been the subject of numerous investigations, with widely varying conclusions. The notable differences between these studies can be attributed to variations in the age, intelligence an...