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Souliéres and colleagues has published a study showing that people with autism solve problems, measured by Raven´s Standard Progressive Matrices (RSPM), up to 40 % faster than people without autism with the same IQ score, as measured by Wechler intelligence score. RSPM assays abilities to flexibly infer rules, manage goal hierarchies, and perform high-level abstractions.

The study had 15 participants with autism and 18 without autism, who where matched on age, sex, manual preference and Wechler IQ. And all participants solved the tasks from RSPM while in a MR-scanner to investigate brain activity. And according to the researchers this scanning show that some times persons with autism uses their enhanced visual processing, and particular parts of the brain, to solve problems.

The study  is published in Human Brain Mapping, and also reported in Norwegian at forskning.no.

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