Gepner, Bruno <br/><br/>
Autistic Constellation, Movement, Time, and Thought 

 -  2006.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> "This paper discusses the authors’ threefold approach—clinical, theoretical, and experimental—to autistic constellation disorders called E-Motion mis-sight and other temporospatial processing disorders of sensory flows. According to this approach, persons with autism spectrum disorders present more or fewer difficulties in the perception and integration of physical and biological movements, and more generally in perceiving “online” sensory events and sensory flows coming from the environmental world, as well as in sensorial-motor coupling and production on time of motor and verbal and emotional communication events. These difficulties occur from the very beginning of their life. In other words, the environmental world is going and changing too fast for at least some autistic persons. Their perception of various sensory flows is therefore desynchronized. Instead of being unified, coherent, continuous, and synchronized, integration and inscription of motion, time, and duration in their mind and body appear to be spatially fragmented and temporally desynchronized. Living in a different space-time, autistic children cannot connect with or tune into physical and human world adequately; they cannot connect their inner world with the external world properly. Some autistic children succeed in correcting or compensating more or less their fragmented, discontinuous, and desynchronized perception of their environment by slowing it down, stopping it, repeating it, and/or by over-self-involving perceptually in details of sensory events, and even by sticking adhesively to objects. This paper demonstrates how the authors’ approach is able to open promising new perspectives for the reeducation of verbal and emotional communication disorders of autistic persons via an original software aimed at slowing down the facial movements and the speech of their caretakers. On the neurofunctional level, these temporospatial processing disorders may be very plausibly accounted by a multi-system neural dyssynchronization and dysconnectivity, involving numerous interconnected neurofunctional systems. In conclusion, autistic disorders, as a particular case of the conscious state, shed light on the functioning and dysfunctioning of the human brain and psyche."