Reduced Generalization in Autism: An Alternative to Weak Central Coherence

By K. Plaisted. 2001

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Vision in autism spectrum disorders. (2009, background): “They argue that this difficulty may reflect a problem with generalization across stimuli, which has been highlighted in some theoretical approaches to ASD (Frith, 1989; Klinger & Dawson, 2001; Plaisted, 2001).”
Describing the Sensory Abnormalities of Children and Adults with Autism (2007, background): “…perception and on the integration of perceptual input at a cognitive level (Courchesne, Lincoln, Kilman, & Galambos, 1985; Hermelin & O’Connor, 1965; Frith & Hermelin, 1969; Mottron & Burack, 2001; Ornitz, 1974, 1988; Ornitz, Guthrie, & Farley, 1978; Plaisted, 2001; Shah & Frith, 1993; Wing, 1971).”
Precise minds in uncertain worlds: predictive coding in autism. (2014, background): “Plaisted (2001) suggested a reduced ability to process similarity at the perceptual and attentional level which results in a reduced tendency to generalize information.”
Understanding autism: insights from mind and brain. (2003, background): “An important extension of the central coherence account postulates not poor integration of information in a gestalt, but rather enhanced discrimination of the individual elements (Mottron et al. 2000; Plaisted 2001).”
Enhanced Perceptual Functioning in Autism: An Update, and Eight Principles of Autistic Perception (2006, background): “Second, Plaisted’s (Plaisted et al., 1998; Plaisted, 2001) idea of superior perceptual discrimination and diminished processing of common features was decisive in pointing to hyper-functioning of low-level perception.”
Autism and the Social World: An Anthropological Perspective (2004, background): “This difficulty may be related to experimental observations that children with autism have difficulty comprehending metaphors and other non-literal meanings and delineate categories more narrowly than unaffected persons (Happé, 1994; Plaisted, 2001).”
Visuo‐spatial abilities in autism: A review (2004, background): “Another possibility, though, is that the speed of responding of participants with autism was already as fast as the task constraints could allow, and therefore any benefit of seeing the stimulus pre-segmented would be masked by a ceiling effect (Plaisted, 2001).”
Cognitive theories of autism (2007, background): “Weak Central Coherence Theory (WCC, Frith, 1989, 2003; Frith & Happé, 1994; Happé, 1999) is a domain general process, and one of its key strengths is that it explains some of the non-social, as well as the social features of autism, such as the attention to acute detail that ranges from pedantry to ”
The Weak Coherence Account: Detail-focused Cognitive Style in Autism Spectrum Disorders (2006, background): “Plaisted ( 2000 , 2001 ) has suggested that the mechanism underlying weak coherence effects may operate at the perceptual level , and specifically lie in enhanced discrimination and reduced generalization .”