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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Sci. 2015 May 25;19(3):452–468. doi: 10.1111/desc.12312

Table 7. Summary of findings from the current cross-syndrome comparison, organized by level of processing (high/low) and modality (auditory-verbal/visuospatial).

Auditory-verbal Visuospatial
Low Phoneme Segmentation Navon
WS (G) ASD (L) WS (G) ASD (G)
DS (L) TD (G) DS (L=G) <TD (G)
High Sentence Completion Fragmented Pictures
WS (G) ASD (G) WS (G) ASD (G)
=DS (G) <TD (G) >DS (G) =/<TD (G)

Note WS = Williams syndrome, DS = Down syndrome, ASD = Autism Spectrum Disorder, TD = typically developing controls, L = the group demonstrated a local bias, G = the group demonstrated a global bias