(CBS News) A new study offers clues for why some people with autism may have a superior ability of processing information. According to a study published in the March 22 issue of the Journal of ...

Cutting-edge neuroscience research identifies what causes mental rigidity in autism spectrum disorder and how to alleviate it ...

People with autism have a greater than normal capacity for processing information even from rapid presentations and are better able to detect information defined as 'critical', according to a ...

The mental retardation seen in 70% of autistic individuals is the predicted outcome of progressive loss of information processing capacity. Footnote 1 The mental retardation in autism retains the ...

Auditory computer modules improved working memory and information processing in people with autism. Image: Adobe Stock Suma Jacob, MD, PhD, the Gloria and Dr. Martin and Segal Family Professor and ...

Those sensory sensitivities were believed to be hallmarks of autism for decades, until new research began to reveal that sensory processing ... A Venn diagram shows a large circle representing ...

Researchers at UC San Francisco have found that children with sensory processing ... handle basic sensory information in the back area of the brain. However, only the autism cohort showed ...

Unsplash Problems with how our brain handles incoming information from our senses are what we call sensory processing issues.

A study appearing in Nature Neuroscience has linked distinct neural and behavioral characteristics in autism spectrum ...

Sensory processing ... autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It is a neurological and developmental disorder that affects how a person communicates, learns, and behaves. Keep reading for more ...

4th ed. American Psychiatric Association, Washington, D.C Minshew NJ, Sweeney J, Luna B 2002 Autism as a selective disorder of complex information processing and underdevelopment of neocortical ...

Researchers at UC San Francisco have found that children with sensory processing ... that both the SPD and autism groups showed decreased connectivity in multiple parieto-occipital tracts, the areas ...