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Tollerfield, Isobel; Chapman, Hazel M.; Lovell, Andrew – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
Appreciating autistic neurodiversity is important when supporting autistic people who experience distress. Specifically, use of a profiling model can reveal less visible autistic differences, including strengths and abilities. Binary logistic regressions showed that the likelihood of extreme distress responses could be interpreted based on…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Emotional Disturbances, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Dahan, Anat; Dubnov, Yuri A.; Popkov, Alexey Y.; Gutman, Itai; Probolovski, Hila Gvirts – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
Individuals with ASD have been shown to have different pattern of functional connectivity. In this study, brain activity of participants with many and few autistic traits, was recorded using an fNIRS device, as participants preformed an interpersonal synchronization task. This type of task involves synchronization and functional connectivity of…
Descriptors: Classification, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Dundas, Eva M.; Best, Catherine A.; Minshew, Nancy J.; Strauss, Mark S. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2012
It has been established that typically developing individuals have a bias to attend to facial information in the left visual field (LVF) more than in the right visual field. This bias is thought to arise from the right hemisphere's advantage for processing facial information, with evidence suggesting it to be driven by the configural demands of…
Descriptors: Autism, Visual Discrimination, Comparative Analysis, Visual Perception
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Wilson, Rebecca; Pascalis, Olivier; Blades, Mark – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2007
We investigated whether children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) have a deficit in recognising familiar faces. Children with ASD were given a forced choice familiar face recognition task with three conditions: full faces, inner face parts and outer face parts. Control groups were children with developmental delay (DD) and typically…
Descriptors: Developmental Delays, Autism, Recognition (Psychology), Children
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Happe, Francesca; Frith, Uta – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2006
"Weak central coherence" refers to the detail-focused processing style proposed to characterise autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The original suggestion of a core deficit in central processing resulting in failure to extract global form/meaning, has been challenged in three ways. First, it may represent an outcome of superiority in local…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Social Cognition, Bias
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Lyons, Viktoria; Fitzgerald, Michael – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2004
Research has shown that individuals with autism and Asperger syndrome are impaired in humor appreciation, although anecdotal and parental reports provide some evidence to the contrary. This paper reviews the cognitive and affective processes involved in humor and recent neurological findings. It examines humor expression and understanding in…
Descriptors: Asperger Syndrome, Autism, Humor, Cognitive Processes
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Bertone, Armando; Faubert, Jocelyn – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2006
Interest regarding neural information processing in autism is growing because atypical perceptual abilities are a characteristic feature of persons with autism. Central to our review is how characteristic perceptual abilities, referred to as "perceptual signatures," can be used to suggest a neural etiology that is specific to autism. We review…
Descriptors: Etiology, Autism, Cognitive Processes, Hypothesis Testing
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Mottron, Laurent; Dawson, Michelle; Soulieres, Isabelle; Hubert, Benedicte; Burack, Jake – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2006
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…
Descriptors: Autism, Visual Perception, Models, Auditory Perception
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Voeller, Kytja K. S. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1996
This paper explores the neural systems underlying social behaviors as they pertain to autism. It discusses major channels for transmission of social-emotional information, neural pathways subserving social behaviors, and social cognition in autism. A hypothesis of autism based on deviant development of the widely distributed neural system…
Descriptors: Autism, Biological Influences, Cognitive Processes, Etiology