Anne McIlroy, The Globe and Mail

People with autism were 40 per cent faster at finishing an intelligence test that measures reasoning than volunteers without the disorder, a new Canadian study has found.

Using a brain scanner, the scientists also discovered that their autistic subjects used different parts of their brain to solve problems. They said the work, published in the journal Human Brain Mapping, could lead to new ways to help people with autism learn.

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