Block design reconstruction skills: not a good candidate for an endophenotypic marker in autism research.
Superior performance on block design tasks is reported in autistic individuals, although it is not consistently found in high-functioning individuals or individuals with Asperger Syndrome. It is assumed to reflect weak central coherence: an underlying cognitive deficit, which might also be part of t...
| Publicado en: | European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Vol. 18; no. 4; pp. 197 - 206 |
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Springer Nature
Apr2009
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