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Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 1/2006

01-01-2006

Enhanced Perceptual Functioning in Autism: An Update, and Eight Principles of Autistic Perception

Auteurs: Laurent Mottron, Michelle Dawson, Isabelle Soulières, Benedicte Hubert, Jake Burack

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 1/2006

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Abstract

We propose an “Enhanced Perceptual Functioning” model encompassing the main differences between autistic and non-autistic social and non-social perceptual processing: locally oriented visual and auditory perception, enhanced low-level discrimination, use of a more posterior network in “complex” visual tasks, enhanced perception of first order static stimuli, diminished perception of complex movement, autonomy of low-level information processing toward higher-order operations, and differential relation between perception and general intelligence. Increased perceptual expertise may be implicated in the choice of special ability in savant autistics, and in the variability of apparent presentations within PDD (autism with and without typical speech, Asperger syndrome) in non-savant autistics. The overfunctioning of brain regions typically involved in primary perceptual functions may explain the autistic perceptual endophenotype.
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According to the autistic member of our team, M. Dawson, “We do what we can with what’s around.”
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
Enhanced Perceptual Functioning in Autism: An Update, and Eight Principles of Autistic Perception
Auteurs
Laurent Mottron
Michelle Dawson
Isabelle Soulières
Benedicte Hubert
Jake Burack
Publicatiedatum
01-01-2006
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 1/2006
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-005-0040-7

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