In her classic book, Autism: Explaining the Enigma, Uta Frith coined the term 'weak central coherence' to describe the tendency of people with autism to focus on details at the expense of pulling together different sources of information in order to understand the big picture. Frith described this cognitive 'style' as the "red thread" running through many of the symptoms of autism, including bot
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July 29, 2010
Global vs Local Cognitive Style in Autism: Central Coherence
The cognitive style known as central coherence is receiving increased attention across a variety of clinical neuroscience disorders. I had not been familiar with this concept of central coherence. Essentially, central coherence describes a style of thinking on a spectrum. On one end of the spectrum, you have individuals who tend to think globally or using a gestalt perspective.
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