How <i>central</i> is central coherence?

López, Beatriz; Leekam, Susan; Arts, G.R.J.

doi:10.1177/1362361307086662

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“…WCC has been criticized for being overly focused on a deficit at the level of contextual, global processing, while there is also research showing a preference for local processing, with global processing sometimes intact (see e.g., Plaisted et al, 1999; Mottron et al, 2000). The theory is also questioned on the basis of how central the drive for central coherence really is, i.e., whether a deficit in integrated information processing spans all levels of cognitive processing (López et al, 2008).…”

Section: Current Understanding Of Autismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Embodiment and sense-making in autism

Jaegher

2013

Front. Integr. Neurosci.

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In this article, I sketch an enactive account of autism. For the enactive approach to cognition, embodiment, experience, and social interaction are fundamental to understanding mind and subjectivity. Enaction defines cognition as sense-making: the way cognitive agents meaningfully connect with their world, based on their needs and goals as self-organizing, self-maintaining, embodied agents. In the social realm, the interactive coordination of embodied sense-making activities with others lets us participate in each other's sense-making (social understanding = participatory sense-making). The enactive approach provides new concepts to overcome the problems of traditional functionalist accounts of autism, which can only give a piecemeal and disintegrated view because they consider cognition, communication, and perception separately, do not take embodied into account, and are methodologically individualistic. Applying the concepts of enaction to autism, I show: How embodiment and sense-making connect, i.e., how autistic particularities of moving, perceiving, and emoting relate to how people with autism make sense of their world. For instance, restricted interests or preference for detail will have certain sensorimotor correlates, as well as specific meaning for autistic people.That reduced flexibility in interactional coordination correlates with difficulties in participatory sense-making. At the same time, seemingly irrelevant “autistic behaviors” can be quite attuned to the interactive context. I illustrate this complexity in the case of echolalia.An enactive account of autism starts from the embodiment, experience, and social interactions of autistic people. Enaction brings together the sensorimotor, cognitive, social, experiential, and affective aspects of autism in a coherent framework based on a complex non-linear multi-causality. This foundation allows to build new bridges between autistic people and their often non-autistic context, and to improve quality of life prospects.

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Section: Current Understanding Of Autismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Embodiment and sense-making in autism

Jaegher

2013

Front. Integr. Neurosci.

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“…Central coherence, another theory that attempts to explain the social deficit in autism is the ability to integrate information into a coherent whole in perceptual and conceptual level [14]. Seeing a wooden object in a rectangular shape, with a pair of doors with locks and handles, one immediately recognizes it as a closet, as well as eyes, nose and mouth in a particular arrangement is a face.…”

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The biopsychosocial processes in autism spectrum disorder

Silva¹,

Filipini²,

Monteiro³

et al. 2013

Int Arch Med

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BackgroundAutism is a disorder characterized by pervasive social and communicative impairments, repetitive and stereotyped behaviors and restricted interests. Its causes and effects have been researched from various neurocognitive theoretical perspectives and with the aid of neuroimaging technology. We aimed to describe biopsychosocial processes characteristic of the Autism Spectrum Disorders.MethodLiterature review using Medline and Scopus databases published between 2001 and 2011, with the keywords "autism", "theory of mind", "executive functions", "central coherence" and “fMRI”.ResultsThe studies found were plotted and organized into tables and an explanatory diagram of the main findings was produced.ConclusionsThe most popular neurocognitive theories are still unable to fully explain the characteristics of the complications that autistic spectrum disorder causes to the quality of life of individuals living with autism. The association of clinical research and neuroimaging may contribute to a better understanding of the functioning of the brain affected by the disorder.

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“…As for the cognitive processes underpinning text comprehension, a study by Jolliffe and Baron-Cohen (2000) suggested that a crucial ability involved in the construction of a coherent mental representation of the story plot is Central Coherence (CC). CC is a cognitive ability assumed to be responsible for integrating the single elements of an event into a wider global context at both the conceptual (i.e., semantic) and perceptual (i.e., visual) level (Frith, 1989;Happé et al, 2001;López et al, 2008;Plaisted, 2001). In a study by Jolliffe and Baron-Cohen (2000), adults with ASD were administered The Global Integration Test, which requires participants to rearrange sentences describing the single events of a narrative in accordance with a theme to tell the most coherent story.…”

Section: Linguistic and Visual Narrative Comprehension: Processes And...mentioning

confidence: 99%