PRESENTACIÓN DE LA ESCALA DE PRECISIÓN DIAGNÓSTICA DEL TRASTORNO DEL ESPECTRO DEL AUTISMO
Prof. Dr. Manuel Ojea (moxea@uvigo.gal)
Manuel Ojea Rúa es Catedrático de Orientación Educativa (3492563057A0511). Doctor en Psicología- Pedagogía por la Universidad de Vigo. Especialista en Neuropsicología del Desarrollo. Psicólogo colegiado con el nº GX05862. Instituto Social de Investigación en Autismo (G44568509), situado en la Universidad de Vigo. Es autor de 54 libros, 214 Artículos en Revistas Científícas y numerosos Articulos en Prensa. https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0002-9787-2520. mail: moxea@uvigo.es
The initial sensory- attention perceptual processing in people with autism spectrum disorder forms a global analysis, but semantic content is limited, therefore, they need to complete their semantic understanding, through second analysis with purpose to encode a greater number of local details, units and/ or conceptual categories. This cognitive action developed through relational connections with concepts previously stored in permanent memory (semantic memory). Study has been designed a qualitative- quantitative triangulated way. The qualitative analysis is based on a textual- conceptual perceptual and visual-perceptual study, while the quantitative analysis has been achieved through non- parametric statistical comparative tests regarding to the grouped variable: “participants”. A total of 10 participants have collaborated in this study, 5 neurotypical participants and 5 participants with autism spectrum disorder, aged between 16-17 years old. The comparative analysis allows delimit partial differential aspects throughout study variables, according to participants´ group variable and, hence, the development of a new cognitive- perceptive theory of specific propositional processing to people with autism: Global Cyclic Theory has been concluded.
Keywords: Autism spectrum disorder, Attention-cognition-perception, Semantic memory, Conceptual propositional theory.

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