Weak Coherence
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Weak Coherence and ASD
Description
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- Theory
The Theory of Weak Coherence as it applies to ASD suggests that people with ASD preferentially use a detail-focused processing style over a more global, integrative processing style that predominates as a person ages. This bias toward detail-focused processing can be seen through open-ended tasks which require strong attention to detail, where the ASD research group participants perform significantly better than the typically developing control group. ASD patients, however, still are able to globally process stimuli as seen in selective attention tasks where participants are explicitly told to pay attention to global information.
