Space cognition and autism: peculiarities about knowledge of the builded environment

The article aims to contribute to the understanding of the factors that relate autism to the design of the built environment. On the one hand, it proposes that some nonsocial particularities of autism such as the insistence on sameness, the strong local coherence, and the systematizing ability inter...

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Auteur principal:	Lee C., Jose Ignacio
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Publié:	Universidad de Costa Rica 2021
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spelling	oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article-445542021-07-07T02:31:48Z Space cognition and autism: peculiarities about knowledge of the builded environment Cognición espacial y autismo: particularidades en el conocimiento del entorno construido Lee C., Jose Ignacio architecture autism spatial cognition environment systematization arquitectura autismo cognición espacial medio ambiente sitematización The article aims to contribute to the understanding of the factors that relate autism to the design of the built environment. On the one hand, it proposes that some nonsocial particularities of autism such as the insistence on sameness, the strong local coherence, and the systematizing ability intervene in the way of knowing the built environment. On the other hand, it proposes that these same particularities can serve as a conceptual basis in the ideation of buildings and environments that are easily understood by people with autism. In the text, these arguments are developed in three parts. The first part defines spatial cognition from the perspective of Environmental Psychology as the mental process that allows the  human being to know and understand the physical space. The second, exposes the cognitive particularities of autism mentioned above, from the theories that have tried to explain them: the weak central coherence (WCC), the executive dysfunction and the hyper-systemizing. And the third part, proposes a type of spatial and formal organization that could respond to the skills of memory, attention to detail and systematization. This proposal suggests that people with autism would be able to recognize the system underlying a physical environment structured from simple and evident elements and laws of organization and that, therefore, they would be able to understand its general structure and associate the organization of its spaces and paths with a pre-established sequence of activities. El artículo pretende contribuir a la comprensión de los factores que vinculan al autismo con el diseño del entorno construido. Por un lado, plantea que algunas particularidades no sociales del autismo como la insistencia en la identidad, la fuerte coherencia local y las habilidades de sistematización intervienen en la manera de conocer el entorno construido. Por otro lado, propone que estas mismas particularidades pueden servir de base conceptual en la ideación de edificios y entornos que sean fácilmente comprensibles por las personas con autismo. En el texto, estos argumentos se desarrollan en tres partes. La primera, define la cognición espacial desde el marco de la Psicología Ambiental como el proceso mental que le permite al ser humano conocer y comprender el espacio físico. La segunda, exponelas particularidades cognitivas del autismo antes mencionadas, a partir de las teorías que han tratado deexplicarlas: la débil coherencia global, la disfunción ejecutiva y la hipersistematización. Y la tercera parte,propone un tipo de organización espacial y formal que podría responder a las habilidades de memoria,atención al detalle y sistematización. Esta propuesta sugiere que las personas con autismo serían  capaces de reconocer el sistema que subyace en un entorno físico estructurado a partir de elementos y leyes de organización simples y evidentes y que, por consiguiente, podrían comprender su estructura general y asociar la disposición de sus espacios y recorridos con una secuencia de actividades preestablecida. Universidad de Costa Rica 2021-06-15 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/revistarquis/article/view/44554 10.15517/ra.v10i2.44554 REVISTARQUIS; Vol. 10 Núm. 2 (2021): REVISTARQUIS 20; 199 - 214 RevistArquis; Vol 10 No 2 (2021): REVISTARQUIS 20; 199 - 214 RevistArquis; v. 10 n. 2 (2021): REVISTARQUIS 20; 199 - 214 2215-275X 10.15517/ra.v10i2 spa https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/revistarquis/article/view/44554/47219 Derechos de autor 2021 Jose Ignacio Lee C. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
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spellingShingle	Lee C., Jose Ignacio Space cognition and autism: peculiarities about knowledge of the builded environment
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title	Space cognition and autism: peculiarities about knowledge of the builded environment
title_short	Space cognition and autism: peculiarities about knowledge of the builded environment
title_full	Space cognition and autism: peculiarities about knowledge of the builded environment
title_fullStr	Space cognition and autism: peculiarities about knowledge of the builded environment
title_full_unstemmed	Space cognition and autism: peculiarities about knowledge of the builded environment
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description	The article aims to contribute to the understanding of the factors that relate autism to the design of the built environment. On the one hand, it proposes that some nonsocial particularities of autism such as the insistence on sameness, the strong local coherence, and the systematizing ability intervene in the way of knowing the built environment. On the other hand, it proposes that these same particularities can serve as a conceptual basis in the ideation of buildings and environments that are easily understood by people with autism. In the text, these arguments are developed in three parts. The first part defines spatial cognition from the perspective of Environmental Psychology as the mental process that allows the  human being to know and understand the physical space. The second, exposes the cognitive particularities of autism mentioned above, from the theories that have tried to explain them: the weak central coherence (WCC), the executive dysfunction and the hyper-systemizing. And the third part, proposes a type of spatial and formal organization that could respond to the skills of memory, attention to detail and systematization. This proposal suggests that people with autism would be able to recognize the system underlying a physical environment structured from simple and evident elements and laws of organization and that, therefore, they would be able to understand its general structure and associate the organization of its spaces and paths with a pre-established sequence of activities.
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Space cognition and autism: peculiarities about knowledge of the builded environment

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