A test of central coherence theory: linguistic processing in high-functioning adults with autism or Asperger syndrome: is local coherence impaired?

Jolliffe, Therese; Baron‐Cohen, Simon

doi:10.1016/s0010-0277(99)00022-0

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“…A reliance on more perceptual or combinatorial modes of semantic processing could be supported by temporal or parietal areas such as, for example, the anterior temporal lobe's so called semantic 'hub'; this might allow retrieval of meaning but not with the same speed and proficiency. Alternate routes of processing, in ASC, are consistent with less automatic semantic processing compared with TD individuals (Frith & Snowling, 1983;Happe, 1997;Jolliffe & Baron-Cohen, 1999;Lopez & Leekam, 2003;Wahlberg & Magliano, 2004;Jarvinen-Pasley et al, 2008). This may explain why a silent reading task might not elicit efficient access to action semantic information in people with ASC whilst they prove capable of processing these words by alternative means e such as reliance on additionally recruited visual cortices (Gaffrey et al, 2007).…”

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What can autism teach us about the role of sensorimotor systems in higher cognition? New clues from studies on language, action semantics, and abstract emotional concept processing

Moseley

Pulvermüller

2018

Cortex

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What can autism teach us about the role of sensorimotor systems in higher cognition? New clues from studies on language, action semantics, and abstract emotional concept processing

Moseley

Pulvermüller

2018

Cortex

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“…Several studies have shown that people with autism have difficulty constructing a situation model of discourse (Happé, 1994;Minshew et al, 1995). This is especially important considering their difficulty in inferring intentions (Happé, 1994(Happé, , 1995Jolliffe & Baron-Cohen, 1999). The integration of information across sentences that is required for building an understanding of the speaker's communicative intent was difficult for the participants with autism, as indicated by the greater engagement of the right hemisphere (compared to the control group) across all types of inferences.…”

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“…In other words, if there is an impairment in discourse processing in autism, is it limited to inferences that are based on human intentionality (based on ToM), or does it extend to inferences based on other types of information? Prior behavioral research has indicated that individuals with high functioning autism performed as well as controls on discourse that involves inferences about physical states, but performed statistically reliably worse than the control groups on inferences about mental states (Happé, 1994;Jolliffe & Baron-Cohen, 1999). In addition, the relationship between understanding of emotional states and Theory of Mind has been of interest in autism .…”

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Theory of Mind disruption and recruitment of the right hemisphere during narrative comprehension in autism

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The intersection of Theory of Mind (ToM) processing and complex narrative comprehension in high functioning autism was examined by comparing cortical activation during the reading of passages that required inferences based on either intentions, emotional states, or physical causality. Right hemisphere activation was substantially greater for all sentences in the autism group than in a matched control group suggesting decreased LH capacity in autism resulting in a spillover of processing to RH homologs. Moreover, the ToM network was disrupted. The autism group showed similar activation for all inference types in the right temporo-parietal component of the ToM network whereas the control participants selectively activated this network only when appropriate. The autism group had lower functional connectivity within the ToM network and also between the ToM and a left hemisphere language network. Furthermore, the within-network functional connectivity in autism was correlated with the size of the anterior portion of the corpus callosum.

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“…see Dennis et al 2001, Happé 1995. Not only are they challenged when confronted with metaphors, idioms, lies and jokes, the literature also shows that verbally competent autistic participants are not as efficient as typically developing controls at using context for more low level tasks like the disambiguation of sentences containing homographs (Happé 1997;Joliffe & Baron-Cohen, 1999). If utterance interpretation of Every .…”

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What Autism Can Reveal About Every ... not Sentences

Noveck

Guelminger

Guillaume

et al. 2006

Journal of Semantics

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The sentence Every horse did not jump over the fence can be interpreted with the negation taking scope over the quantifier (i.e. not every horse jumped) or with the quantifier Every taking scope over the negation (ultimately providing the reading no horse jumped). Beginning with Musolino, Crain and Thornton (2000), much work has shown that while adults typically adopt a Not every reading in '2-of-3' contexts (e.g. where 2-of-3 horses jump over a fence), children do not and often produce None readings instead. In line with suggestions from Lidz (2003, 2006), we propose that this developmental effect relies to a great extent on pragmatic capacities. In the present work, we aim to replicate Musolino et al.'s (2000) results with 4-year-olds and adults while including verbally competent autistic participants. Syntactic skills among verbally competent autistic participants are assumed to be unimpaired while their pragmatic deficiencies have been well documented. Our results show an adult preference for the Not every reading in 2-of-3 contexts and equivocality among children and autistic participants. This is in line with the expectation that syntax makes the two readings equally available and that adults, unlike young children and autistic participants, are efficient at exploiting the context in order to come up with a single consistent reading.

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A test of central coherence theory: linguistic processing in high-functioning adults with autism or Asperger syndrome: is local coherence impaired?

Cited by 361 publications

References 47 publications

What can autism teach us about the role of sensorimotor systems in higher cognition? New clues from studies on language, action semantics, and abstract emotional concept processing

What can autism teach us about the role of sensorimotor systems in higher cognition? New clues from studies on language, action semantics, and abstract emotional concept processing

Theory of Mind disruption and recruitment of the right hemisphere during narrative comprehension in autism

What Autism Can Reveal About Every ... not Sentences

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