Central coherence
As central coherence modern understands psychology , the ability to integrate individual perception elements in an overall context and summarize as a realistic life-like picture unit. Stimuli and information are correctly related to each other and recorded and stored as an overall picture. Neurotypical people are able to react logically and consistently to this.
This mental ability is moderately to severely impaired in schizophrenics and Asperger's patients , as well as in other people with autism spectrum disorders and therefore only weakly developed. An autistic or Asperger's patient would say that he can see hundreds of individual trees but cannot recognize a forest. A neurotypical person, on the other hand, already summarizes the individual trees as a forest in his mind, but can identify individual trees at any time. This environmental perception is in turn apparently extremely detail-oriented and overly selective in autistic and schizophrenic people . They find it difficult to grasp the overall context. It is not yet known which functional areas of the brain are responsible for this problem.
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- ↑ Christine Preißmann : Psychotherapy and counseling for people with Asperger's Syndrome: Concepts for successful treatment from the perspective of those affected and the therapist . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 3-17-020757-1 , pages 18 & 19.
- ↑ Annett Warmschmidt: Design of a parent group training to promote autistic children on the basis of the TEACCH principles . GRIN-Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 3-640-18858-6 , page 29ff.
- ↑ Judith Sinzig: Autism . Springer, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 3-642-13070-4 , page 38ff.
- ↑ Mandy Roy et al .: Asperger's Syndrome in Adulthood . In: Dtsch Arztebl Int . No. 106 (5) , 2009, pp. 59-64 ( Article ).