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Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

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Cognitive Differences in Pictorial Reasoning Between High-Functioning Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome

Auteurs: Chérif P. Sahyoun, Isabelle Soulières, John W. Belliveau, Laurent Mottron, Maria Mody

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 7/2009

Abstract

We investigated linguistic and visuospatial processing during pictorial reasoning in high-functioning autism (HFA), Asperger’s syndrome (ASP), and age and IQ-matched typically developing participants (CTRL), using three conditions designed to differentially engage linguistic mediation or visuospatial processing (visuospatial, V; semantic, S; visuospatial + semantic, V + S). The three groups did not differ in accuracy, but showed different response time profiles. ASP and CTRL participants were fastest on V + S, amenable to both linguistic and nonlinguistic mediation, whereas HFA participants were equally fast on V and V + S, where visuospatial strategies were available, and slowest on S. HFA participants appeared to favor visuospatial over linguistic mediation. The results support the use of linguistic versus visuospatial tasks for characterizing subtypes on the autism spectrum.

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Titel: Cognitive Differences in Pictorial Reasoning Between High-Functioning Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome
Auteurs: Chérif P. Sahyoun
Isabelle Soulières
John W. Belliveau
Laurent Mottron
Maria Mody
Publicatiedatum: 01-07-2009
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 7/2009
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-009-0712-9

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