Editing Visual thinking (section)

===Autism===
{{See also|Autism|Nonverbal learning disorder}}

Visual thinking has been argued by [[Temple Grandin]] to be an origin for delayed speech in people with [[autism]].<ref>[http://www.grandin.com/inc/visual.thinking.html THINKING IN PICTURES: Autism and Visual Thought<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> It has been suggested that visual thinking has some necessary connection with autism.{{citation needed|date=November 2012}} Functional imaging studies on people with autism have supported the hypothesis that they have a cognitive style that favors the use of visuospatial coding strategies.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Sahyoun|first=Chérif P.|author2=John W. Belliveau |author3=Isabelle Soulières |author4=Shira Schwartz |author5=Maria Mody |title= Neuroimaging of the Functional and Structural Networks Underlying Visuospatial versus Linguistic Reasoning in High-Functioning Autism|journal=Neuropsychologia|year=2010|volume=48|issue=1|pages=86–95|doi= 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.08.013|pmc=2795068 |pmid=19698726}}</ref> However, the existence of people with both [[Aphantasia]] and autism brings this theory into question.