Thinking in pictures as a cognitive account of autism

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1157-1177

  Kunda, Maithilee ^a   Goel, Ashok K ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Cognition; Information processing; Mental imagery; Verbal representations; Visual reasoning; Visual representations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING; VISUAL MEMORY;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; COGNITION; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; THINKING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 82755189803     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-010-1137-1     Document Type: Article

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