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Children with an autism spectrum \ndisorder (ASD) and matched typically developing children were administered \ntasks tapping visuospatial coherence, false-belief understanding and \naspects of executive control. Significant group differences were found in \nall three cognitive domains. Evidence of local processing on coherence \ntasks was widespread in the ASD group, but difficulties in attributing \nfalse beliefs and in components of executive functioning were present in \nfewer of the children with ASD. This cognitive profile was generally \nsimilar for younger and older children with ASD. Furthermore, weak CC was \nunrelated to false-belief understanding, but aspects of coherence (related \nto integration) were associated with aspects of executive control. Few \nassociations were found between cognitive variables and indices of \nautistic symptomatology. 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