“…A number of experimental studies have discovered differences between ASD and control groups in a variety of sensory modalities including vision (see Simmons et al, 2009, for a review), hearing (see Haesen, Boets & Wagemans, 2010, for a review), touch (Cascio et al, 2008), the vestibular system (Kern et al, 2007a), smell (Bennetto, Kuschner & Hyman, 2007) and taste (Tavassoli & Baron-Cohen, 2012), and this consensus will shortly be reflected in revised diagnostic criteria for ASD (APA, 2011). One consistent difference observed in both the visual (Shah & Frith, 1983) and auditory (Mottron, Peretz & Ménard, 2000) domains, is that individuals with ASD tend to exhibit superior local processing.…”