Autistics are presumed to be characterized by cognitive impairment, and their cognitive
strengths (eg, in Block Design performance) are frequently interpreted as low-level by-products …

We propose an “Enhanced Perceptual Functioning” model encompassing the main differences
between autistic and non-autistic social and non-social perceptual processing: locally …

Autistics often exhibit enhanced perceptual abilities when engaged in visual search, visual
discrimination, and embedded figure detection. In similar fashion, while performing a range of …

Background An important minority of school-aged autistic children, often characterized as ‘nonverbal’
or ‘minimally verbal,’ displays little or no spoken language. These children are at …

Importance The definition and nature of autism have been highly debated, as exemplified
by several revisions of theDSM(DSM-III, DSM-IIIR, DSM-IV, andDSM-5) criteria. There has …

High-functioning individuals with autism have been found to favor visuospatial processing in
the face of typically poor language abilities. We aimed to examine the neurobiological basis …

Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) is widely used to estimate autistic intelligence
(Joseph in The neuropsychology of autism. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011 ; …

A distinctively uneven profile of intelligence is a feature of the autistic spectrum. Within the
spectrum, Asperger individuals differ from autistics in their early speech development and in …

The formation and manipulation of mental images represents a key ability for successfully
solving visuospatial tasks like Wechsler's Block Design or visual reasoning problems, tasks …

Across the autism spectrum, level of intelligence is highly dependent on the psychometric
instrument used for assessment, and there are conflicting views concerning which measures …