Autism and Its Relation to Impaired Central Coherence  

Oleh:

Rahman, Roseliza Murni Ab. ; Ng, Wai Sheng

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah nasional - terakreditasi DIKTI
Dalam koleksi: Anima Indonesian Psychological Journal vol. 21 no. 3 (Apr. 2006), page 229-248.
Topik: AUTISM; autism; central coherence; mental retardation; stimuli conncetion; stimuli isolation

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: AA46.5 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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This experimental study was conducted to investigate whether autistic children have impaired central coherence as proposed by Frith and colleagues. Subjects were 30 children divided equally among autistic, normal and mentally regarded groups, matched average intellectual level of 5 years old as measured by Raven's coloured progressive matrices. Three sets of tests were administered to compare subjects' perfomance in two task dimensions which were stimuli connection and stimuli isolation. According to Frith, autistic children performed better in stimuli isolation tasks in comparison to stimuli connection tasks. However, the present findings contradicted Frith's postulation as autistic subjects generally demonstrated the tendency perform better in stimuli connection as opposed to stimuli isolation tasks. Thus, contradicting previous findings regarding autism and impaired central coherence. The implications of the present study were discussed in several aspects including the heterogeneity issue in autism and the possible relations between impaired central coherence and mental retardation.

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