Typically, people succumb to visual illusions, such as the Muller-Lyer illusion, Support for differential processing propensities in ASC (Happe´, 1996 Ishida, Kamio & The way in which ASC individuals atypically respond to visual illusions has been offered as Support for this theory comes from two areas of study those whichĭemonstrate that ASC individuals show peaks in perceptual functioning and are superior to non-ĪSC individuals on tasks which require local processing (Shah & Frith, 1983) and those whichĬonsistently find inferior ASC performance on tasks and abilities heavily reliant on global Of ability and in particular accounts for the atypical visuospatial processing capacities in ASC Individuals on the spectrum, but it also accounts for the superiorities, spared abilities and islets Visual search capabilities, this theory not only explains a range of difficulties experienced by Processing capabilities such as acute feature detection, pattern recognition, discrimination and Since global processing is critical to both ER and understanding of social context whereas,Ĭonversely, local, detail focussed processing would be preferential for low-level perceptual Social difficulties in ASC (Happe´ & Frith 2006). Integrate perceptual information in order to gain a higher-level meaning or gist, accounts for the According to the WCC theory, since contextual integration is critical toĮffective social functioning, an excessive focus on details coupled with a reduced ability to Parts of their environment in a piecemeal fashion and therefore experience a fragmented rather Rather than perceiving things as a whole, ASC individuals perceive and process the constituent This processing style is referred to as a weak drive for global coherence (Happé & Frith, 2006). The minor details and do not tend to process information by extracting overall meaning or gist. ASC individuals consistently demonstrate a propensity for attending to Visual, auditory etc) into a coherent whole whilst ignoring minor details, ASC individuals areįound to do the opposite. Globally, attending to the whole and integrating perceptual information (via multiple channels Whilst typically, people process their environment With ASC view their environment in its entirety.Īccording to the WCC theory, ASC is characterised by a detail-focussed processing bias, at theĮxpense of typical global processing defaults. General account of ASC symptomology, offering that differential information processing biasesĪre not specifically reserved for socio-emotional processing but rather affect the way people However, unlike the ES/EMB theory, the WCC theory offers a domain. The superior abilities of ASC individuals in addition to explaining the inherent social and emotion People’s minds as central to ASC symptomology, the weak central coherence (WCC) theory ofĪSC (Frith, 1989 Happé & Frith, 2006), much like the ES/EMB theory, offers an explanation for
Whereas the ToM hypothesis of ASC posits deficient understanding and representing of other