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Case Report: Drawing “IT”—A Neuropsychological Study on Visuospatial Abilities of a Boy with Autism and Drawing Talent
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Open AccessThe Role of Dispositional Mindfulness in the Impact of Repetitive Negative Thinking on Anxiety and Depression in People with Different Autistic-Like Traits
Available data suggest that inflexible allocation of attention in people on the autism spectrum can lead to anxiety and depression symptoms, through the increase of repetitive negative thinking (worry and rumi...
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Specific Global–Local Visual Processing Abilities Mediate the Influence of Non-social Autistic-like Traits on Mental Rotation
Inconsistent data are available on mental rotation performance in neurotypicals with high autistic-like traits. Here, we tested whether global–local visual processing abilities mediate the influence of specifi...
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Open AccessFigure Disembedding: The Gottschaldt’s Hidden Figure Test in Children with Typical Development and Autism
In two studies, we used the Gottschaldt’s Hidden Figure Test (GHFT) for assessing figure disembedding ability in children aged 7–11. Study 1 demonstrated in a large sample of typically develo** children that...
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Open AccessAnxiety Sensitivity Domains are Differently Affected by Social and Non-social Autistic Traits
Anxiety sensitivity (AS) is implicated in the development and maintenance of several psychopathological conditions. Non-clinical individuals with high autistic traits may develop anxiety disorders and depressi...
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Open AccessThe effect of autistic traits on disembedding and mental rotation in neurotypical women and men
Recent data has revealed dissociations between social and non-social skills in both autistic and neurotypical populations. In the present study, we investigated whether specific visuospatial abilities, such as...
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Signals of Threat in Persons Exposed to Natural Disasters
Individuals exposed to traumatic events can develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and depression, but also subclinical behavioral and emotional changes. Although persons exposed to trauma without PTSD ...
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The Influence of Systemizing, Empathizing and Autistic Traits on Visuospatial Abilities
Much evidence indicates that neurotypical individuals with high level of autistic traits show performances comparable to those of autistic individuals in visuospatial tasks, such as the embedded figure test an...
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The effects of autistic traits and academic degree on visuospatial abilities
In the present study, we were interested to investigate how autistic traits (including systemizing and empathy) and academic degree influence individuals’ visuospatial abilities. To this end, 352 university st...
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Normative data of the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure for Italian-speaking elementary school children
The Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test (ROCF) is a widely used neuropsychological test for the evaluation of drawing disorders in different clinical populations, and, in particular, in persons with neurodevelo...
