Autism, Context/Noncontext Information Processing, and Atypical Development

Figure 1

  On the right, there are three synonymous sentences that describe the same information chunk. On the left, three different synonymous episodes are made of various shapes. The relationship between synonyms in both groups is illustrated by vertical bands. The word “big”, for example, does not directly associate with “large” but indirectly by appearing in groups with similar words. As illustrated on the left, there is no reason that the higher-order synonymic information which underlies words need be confined to linguistics since first- and higher-order associations can also exist between entities (in this case, shapes) that get grouped into episodes.