Is the extreme ability of autistics at visually systematizing a myth?

**_DisaHealth: A new study on autistic children's processing of visual dat casts doubt on their ability to "systematize"_**

**_[Click here for link to British Study, Proceeding of the National Academy of Science][1]_**

**_Quoting the study: _**

"…The nature of large-scale search behavior in autism cannot therefore be explained by a facility for systemizing. Rather, children with autism showed **difficulties exploring and exploiting the large-scale space**, which might instead be attributed to constraints (rather than benefits) in their cognitive repertoire.."

**_DisaHealth: Mmmm… Maybe, but_**

* _Autism is a spectrum:The article does mention "children with autism" as a uniform group when there can be  substantial differences in the spectrum. [Click here for link to article in Research in Autism Spectrum Disorder][2]_
* _Here is [a link to the Baron-Cohen test][3], Baron Cohen 's theory is the one attacked by PNAS;_

_**Bottom line: The autism level of the children of the PNAS study has not been mentioned, at least in the abstract…. If indeed it has not been considered, that should put questions on the results…**_

_Hey, I am just a journalist here, correct me if I missed something…._

[1]: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/12/13/1014076108.abstract
[2]: http://www.disahealth.com/feed/Classification of children with autism spectrum disorders
[3]: http://homepage.mac.com/lpetrich/Asperger/SystemQuotientRevised.html

URL: http://www.disahealth.com/2011/01/02/is-the-extreme-ability-of-autistics-at-visually-systematizing-a-myth/