“…This finding may have a certain level of specificity regarding other clinical populations. Studies of categorical perception in schizophrenia (Cienfuegos, March, Shelley, & Javitt, 1999;Kugler & Caudrey, 1983), Alzheimer disease (Saumier et al, in revision) and developmental dyslexia (Serniclaes, SprengerCharolles, Carre, & Demonet, 2001) have consistently revealed anomalies both in discrimination and classification curves, whereas in our study individuals with autism show a typical classification curve associated with an atypical discrimination curve.…”