An autistic young man and a normal control were asked to factorize numbers and to recognize and generate primes. Both subjects made a similar number of errors and employed similar strategies, but they differed markedly in the speeds at which the arithmetical operations were carried out.
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
Hermelin et al. (1990) studied this question.
Synapse has enriched 5 related papers. Consider them for comparative context: