American Psychiatric Association (1994). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
(4th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
Brian, J. A., & Bryson, S. E. (1996). Disembedding performance and recognition memory in
autism/PDD. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 37, 865–872.
Dunn, L. M., Dunn, L. M., Whetton, C., & Burley, J. (1997). The British picture vocabulary scale.
Windsor: NFER-Nelson.
Eisenmajer, R., Prior, M., Leekam, S., Wing, L., Gould, J., Welham, M., & Ong, B. (1996).
Comparison of clinical symptoms in autism and Asperger’s disorder. Journal of the American
Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 35, 1523–1531.
Eisenmajer, R., Prior, M., Leekam, S., Wing, L., Gould, J., Welham, M., & Ong, B. (1998). Delayed
language onset as a predictor of clinical symptoms in pervasive development disorders.
Journal of the Autism and Developmental Disorders, 6, 527–533.
Elliott, C. D., Murray, D. J., & Pearson, L. S. (1983). British ability scales. Windsor: NFER-Nelson.
Foxton, J. M., Stewart, M. E., Barnard, L., Rodgers, J., Young, A. H., O’Brien, G., & Griffiths, T. D.
(2003). Absence of auditory global interference in autism. Brain, 126, 2703–2709.
Freeman, B. J., Cronin, P., & Candela, P. (2002). Asperger syndrome or autistic disorder? Focus on
Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 17, 145–154.
Frith, U. (1989). Autism: Explaining the enigma. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Frith, U. (1991). Asperger and his syndrome. In U. Frith (Ed.), Autism and Asperger syndrome
(pp. 1–36). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Frith, U., & Happe´, F. (1994). Autism: Beyond theory of mind. Cognition, 50, 115–132.
Frith, U., & Snowling, M. (1983). Reading for meaning and reading for sound in autistic and
dyslexic children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 1, 329–342.
Gilman, J. T., & Tuchman, R. F. (1995). Autism and associated behavioral disorders:
Pharmacotherapeutic intervention. Annals Pharmacotherapeutics, 29, 47–56.
Happe´, F. (1997). Central coherence and theory of mind in autism: Reading homographs in
context. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 15, 1–12.
Happe´, F. (1999). Autism: Cognitive deficit or cognitive style? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3,
216–222.
Heaton, P. (2003). Pitch memory, labelling and disembedding in autism. Journal of Child
Psychology and Psychiatry, 44, 543–551.
Heaton, P., Hermelin, B., & Pring, L. (1998). Autism and pitch processing: A precursor for savant
musical ability? Music Perception, 15, 291–305.
Heaton, P., Pring, L., & Hermelin, B. (1999). A pseudo-savant: A case of exceptional musical
splinter skills. Neurocase, 5, 503–509.
Hermelin, B., & O’Connor. (1967). Remembering of words by psychotic and subnormal children.
British Journal of Psychology, 58, 213–218.
Jolliffe, T., & Baron-Cohen, S. (1997). Are people with autism and Asperger syndrome faster than
normal on the Embedded Figures Test? Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 38,
527–534.
Jolliffe, T., & Baron-Cohen, S. (2001). A test of central coherence theory: Can adults with highfunctioning
autism or Asperger syndrome integrate fragments of an object? Cognitive
Neuropsychiatry, 6, 193–216.
Klin, A., Jones, W., Schultz, R., & Volkmar, F. (2003). The enactive mind, or from actions to
cognition: Lessons from autism. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society: Biological
Sciences, 358, 345–360.
McLaughlin-Cheng, E. (1998). Asperger syndrome and autism: A literature review and metaanalysis.
Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 13, 263–271.
Miller, L. K. (1989). Musical savants: Exceptional skill in the mentally retarded. Hillsdale, NJ:
Erlbaum.
Milne, E., Swettenham, J., Hansen, P., Campbell, R., Jeffries, H., & Plaisted, K. (2002). High motion
coherence thresholds in children with autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry,
43, 255–263.
Mottron, L., & Burack, J. A. (2001). Enhanced perceptual functioning in the development of
autism. In J. A. Burack, T. Charman, N. Yirmiya, & P. R. Zelazo (Eds.), The development of
autism: Perspectives from theory and research (pp. 131–148). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum.
Mottron, L., Peretz, I., & Me´nard, E. (2000). Local and global music in high-functioning persons
with autism: Beyond central coherence? Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 41,
1057–1065.
Ozonoff, S., South, M., & Miller, J. (2000). DSM-IV defined Asperger’s syndrome: Cognitive,
behavioral and early history differentiation from high-functioning autism. Autism, 1, 29–46.
Ozonoff, S., Strayer, D. L., McMahon, W. M., & Filloux, F. (1994). Executive function abilities in
autism and Tourette syndrome: An information processing approach. Journal of Child
Psychology and Psychiatry, 35, 1015–1032.
Plaisted, K. C. (2001). Reduced generalisation in autism: An alternative to weak central coherence.
In J. A. Burack, T. Charman, N. Yirmiya, & P. R. Zelazo (Eds.), The development of autism:
Perspectives from theory and research (pp. 149–169). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Plaisted, K. C., Swettenham, J., & Rees, L. (1999). Children with autism show local precedence in a
divided attention task and global precedence in a selective attention task. Journal of Child
Psychology and Psychiatry, 40, 733–742.
Raven, J., Raven, J. C., & Court, J. H. (1998). Manual for Raven’s Progressive Matrices and
Vocabulary Scales: Section 2 coloured progressive matrices. Oxford: Oxford Psychologists
Press.
Renninger, L. B., Granot, R. I., & Donchin, E. (2003). Absolute pitch and the P300 component of
the event-related potential: An exploration of variables that may account for individual
differences. Music Perception, 20, 357–382.
Rinehart, N. J., Bradshaw, J. L., Moss, S. A., Brereton, A. V., & Tonge, B. J. (2000). Atypical
interference of local detail on global processing in high-functioning autism and Asperger’s
disorder. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 41, 769–778.
Ropar, D., & Mitchell, P. (1999). Are individuals with autism and Asperger’s syndrome susceptible
to visual illusions? Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 40, 1283–1293.
Shah, A., & Frith, U. (1983). An islet of ability in autistic children: A research note. Journal of Child
Psychology and Psychiatry, 24, 613–620.
Shah, A., & Frith, U. (1993). Why do autistic individuals show superior performance on the block
design task? Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 34, 1351–1364.
Snodgrass, G., & Vanderwart, M. (1980). A standardised set of 260 pictures: Norms for name
agreement, image agreement, familiarity and visual complexity. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 6, 174–215.
Tager-Flusberg, H. (2003). Exploring the relationship between theory of mind and socialcommunicative
functioning in children with autism. In B. Repacholi & V. Slaughter (Eds.),
Individual differences in theory of mind: Implications for typical and atypical development
(pp. 197–212). New York: Psychology Press.
Teunisse, J-P., Cools, A. R., van Spaendonck, K. P. M., Aerts, F. H. T. M., & Berger, H. J. C. (2001).
Cognitive styles in high-functioning adolescents with autistic disorder. Journal of Autism and
Developmental Disorders, 31, 55–66.
VanMeter, L., Fein, D., Morris, R., Waterhouse, L., & Allen, D. (1997). Delay versus deviance in
autistic social behavior. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 27, 557–559.
Waters, A., Townsend, E., & Underwood, G. (1998). Expertise in musical sight-reading: A study of
pianists. British Journal of Psychology, 89, 123–149.
Wing, L. (2000). Past and future of research on Asperger syndrome. In A. Klein, F. R. Volkmar, &
A. S. Sparrow (Eds.), Asperger syndrome (pp. 418–432). New York: The Guildford Press.
World Health Organization (1993). International classification of diseases: Tenth Revision. Chapter
V. Mental and behavioural disorders. Geneva: Author.