The Weak Coherence Account: Detail-focused Cognitive Style in Autism Spectrum Disorders

By F. Happé, Uta Frith. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2006

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Developmental Neuroscience

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Cognitive theories of autism (2007, methodology): “In a drawing task, children ADHD showed problems o (planning) but not WCC Happé and Frith (2006) Theoretical EF may be required in shifting from local to global processing and so is compatible with WCC theory, even though WCC is not the same as EF Not applicable wi f E 252 G. Rajendran, P. Mitchell…”
Active interoceptive inference and the emotional brain (2016, background): “This has several interesting implications for attachment, theory of mind, and a lack of central coherence that characterises the disorder in later life (82).”
The nature of friendship in children with autism spectrum disorders: A systematic review (2014, background): “That is, they may lack the ability to focus on the ‘bigger picture’ and may often only focus on specific parts of the situation (Frith & Happe, 1994; Happe & Frith, 2006).”
Emotional competence in children with autism: Diagnostic criteria and empirical evidence (2008, background): “This enhanced local and impaired global style of processing information is referred to as weak central coherence (Happé & Frith, 2006).”
The Construct of the Multisensory Temporal Binding Window and its Dysregulation in Developmental Disabilities (2014, background): “The concept of weak central coherence is closely related to the observations described above, in that it suggests that communication across brain networks is preferentially impaired in autism (Frith and Happe, 1994; Happe, 1999; Happe & Frith, 2006).”
How Do Expectations Shape Perception? (2018, background): “Perceptual atypicalities in autism, on the other hand, are suggested to reflect impaired top-down guidance by expectations, resulting in better processing of local details but impoverished global form perception [138], and possibly hypersensitivity to incoming (unexpected) stimuli.”
A review of methods in the study of attention in autism (2010, background): “This finding is interpreted as indicating enhanced local processing in ASD, supporting the predictions of weak central coherence theory (Happé & Frith, 2006).”
Addressing the Academic Needs of Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder in Secondary Education (2014, background): “Individuals with ASD may exhibit a bias toward local processing (e.g., detail; weak central coherence [WCC]) rather than global processing (“big picture”; Happé & Frith, 2006).”
An aberrant precision account of autism (2014, positive): “…reduced sensitivity to context (Frith and Happé, 1994), general difficulties with predictability (Gomot and Wicker, 2012), difficulties with Theory of Mind (Baron-Cohen et al., 1985), reduced " top-down " control (Happé and Frith, 2006) and enhanced " bottom-up " functioning (Mottron et al., 2009).”
Videogames and Young People with Developmental Disorders (2010, background): “They sometimes demonstrate superior performance to TD individuals on visual perception and search tasks (Frith, 2003; Happé & Frith, 2006).”
Vision in autism spectrum disorders. (2009, methodology): “Commentators (e.g. Dakin & Frith, 2005; Happé & Frith, 2006) have suggested that this apparent discrepancy could be due to ‘‘methodological differences” between the studies.”