Global/Local Processing in Autism: Not a Disability, but a Disinclination
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Koldewyn, Kami
Jiang, Yuhong V.
Weigelt, Sarah
Kanwisher, Nancy
Date Issued
February 2013
Journal
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
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Springer-Verlag
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Koldewyn, Kami, Yuhong V. Jiang, Sarah Weigelt, and Nancy Kanwisher. “Global/Local Processing in Autism: Not a Disability, but a Disinclination.” Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 43, no. 10 (February 3, 2013): 2329–2340.
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It is widely suggested that ASD is characterized by atypical local/global processing, but the published findings are contradictory. In an effort to resolve this question, we tested a large group of children on both a free-choice task and an instructed task using hierarchical local–global stimuli. We find that although children with autism showed a reduced preference to report global properties of a stimulus when given a choice, their ability to process global properties when instructed to do so is unimpaired. These findings support prior claims that people with ASD show a disinclination, not a disability, in global processing, and highlight the broader question of whether other characteristics of autism may also reflect disinclinations rather than disabilities.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-013-1777-z
