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SUBMITTER: D'Souza D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4789488 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
D'Souza Dean D Booth Rhonda R Connolly Monica M Happé Francesca F Karmiloff-Smith Annette A
Developmental science 20150525 3
Both Williams syndrome (WS) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have been characterized as preferentially processing local information, whereas in Down syndrome (DS) the reported tendency is to process stimuli globally. We designed a cross-syndrome, cross-task comparison to reveal similarities and differences in local/global processing in these disorders. Our in-depth study compared local/global processing across modalities (auditory-verbal/visuo-spatial) and levels of processing (high/low) in th ...[more]