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Can children with autism hear individual musical tones better than other children? If they could, this would provide some more support for the theory that children with ASD tend to see the details rather than the whole. This is known as weak central coherence.
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In this paper we tried to test the possibility that people with ASD might hear the individual tones in a chord. The results are not entirely what we expected.
Dr Timothy Ivor Williams
University of Reading
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This page is a summary of: Pitch perception in children with autistic spectrum disorders, British Journal of Developmental Psychology, November 2005, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1348/026151005x26840.
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