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Superiority on the Embedded Figures Test in autism and in normal males: Evidence of an “innate talent”?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1998

Simon Baron-Cohen
Simon Baron-Cohen
Affiliation:
Departments of Experimental Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EB, England, United Kingdomsb205@cus.cam.ac.uk
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Abstract

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Howe et al. suggest that most talents can be explained in terms of practice and other environmental effects, and only exceptionally by innate factors. This commentary provides an illustration of one such exception: performance on the Embedded Figures Test by people with autism and their relatives.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , June 1998 , pp. 408 - 409
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press