Although sensory processing challenges have been noted since the first clinical descriptions
of autism, it has taken until the release of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical …

For individuals with autism spectrum disorder or 'ASD'the ability to accurately process and
interpret auditory information is often difficult. Here we review behavioural …

Outstanding skills, including special isolated skills (SIS) and perceptual peaks (PP) are
frequent features of autism. However, their reported prevalence varies between studies and …

Superior perception, peaks of ability, and savant skills are often observed in the autistic
phenotype. The enhanced perceptual functioning model (Mottron et al., 2006a) emphasizes …

Background: Autistic musical savants invariably possess absolute pitch ability and are able
to disembed individual musical tones from chords. Enhanced pitch discrimination and …

Why do we like the music we do? Research has shown that musical preferences and
personality are linked, yet little is known about other influences on preferences such as …

Autism is characterized by an uneven profile of cognitive abilities and population studies
show that approximately 10 percent of diagnosed individuals possess a skill that is …

Here we show that good pitch memory is widespread among adults with no musical training.
We tested unselected college students on their memory for the pitch level of instrumental …

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a pervasive developmental disorder including
abnormalities in perceptual processing. We measure perception in a battery of tests across …

Background. Children with autistic spectrum disorders typically show impairments in
processing affective information within social and interpersonal domains. It has yet to be …