A new study published reports that social deficits in children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) correlate with early structural and connectivity traits particularly in the visual ...

Poor visual working memory can play an important role in the difficulties experienced by a child with autism, according to our recent research. The aim of this study was to compare the working memory ...

Researchers have determined that people with autism concentrate more brain resources in the areas associated with visual detection and identification, and conversely, have less activity in the areas ...

Université de Montréal psychiatry professor Laurent Mottron has spent his career studying the cognitive processes of people ...

But it doesn’t mean teachers and therapists should abandon picture-based therapy. Dubova/Shutterstock Children with autism are often described as “visual learners” and said to “think in pictures”.

Adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and typically developing (TD) individuals process visual representations of body parts in similar ways, according to a new brain imaging study published in ...

Autism is a broad term for a range of developmental disorders. Some are mild, while others can be debilitating, making ...