![]() ![]() This is certainly the case in my family– we are all pretty detail oriented! In that sense, this theory may cast too broad a net (whereas others I find too narrow), but I think Frith is definitely still on to something. Frith says that many of these things are true of the relatives of a person with autism, even if they don’t have autism themselves. One comment I have is that I think these traits can be true of anyone who is detail oriented, whether they are autistic or not. The funny thing is that, while the name of this theory of autism refers to a weakness, the most clear evidence of it is seen in a person’s strengths at tasks that depend on being detail oriented.įrith’s video gives several examples of visual tests that seem to indicate that this focus on details is an area of strength in people with autism and Asperger’s. It’s been one of my most helpful sources for this series of posts. Incidentally, here’s a link to a presentation by Frith on various Cognitive Theories of Autism. She describes weak central coherence as “an information processing style” that tends to process “details at the expense of global meaning.” Put another way, autistic people are very good at noticing details, but we struggle with seeing the “big picture”– we might see every tree but miss the forest. ![]() The weak central coherence theory was first advanced by German-born psychologist Uta Frith of University College London in the late 1980s. Okay this is my third post about a specific cognitive theory of autism, a theory that attempts to explain the outward signs of autism as the results of something different about the autistic person’s brain or mind. ![]()
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