Dr. Olga Bogdashina

However, it is one thing to perceive (at the stage of sensation), but to process all this information is a different matter altogether. No...

I remember the first time I read about the lack of Theory of Mind in autism in the paper by Baron-Cohen, Leslie and Frith, published in...

I have no statistics based on research but I strongly believe that more than 95-97% of the population can be regarded as dysfunctional in...

Present but invisible antecedent Sometimes we cannot see/hear/feel certain stimuli as our senses are too ‘normal’. For example, the...

All senses can be affected. Some children might find many noises and bright lights nearly impossible to bear; for others certain noises...

Delayed processing in autism The experience of ‘delayed hearing’ happens when the question/instruction has been sensed and recorded...

Prosopagnosia (“Face Blindness”) in Autism Face blindness may co-occur with autistic spectrum disorders. Hans Asperger reported the...

Autism: Sensations last too long Non-autistics ‘forget’ the sensation very quickly. For example, when you get dressed in the morning...

Fragmentation For many autistic individuals, fragmentation of the world is not just a metaphor, it is real. Because of gestalt perception,...

Gestalt perception can account for both strengths and weaknesses of autistic perception. On the one hand, they seem to perceive more...

Olga Bogdashina