ces of autistic and normal subjects showed that when given a choice between verbal and musical material, the autistic children preferred music, while normal children showed no preference. Secondly, autistic children listened to both types of material predominantly with the left ear. Normal subjects showed a distinction between the types of material they were given to process in that they tended to listen to music primarily with the left ear, and verbal material with the right ear. This suggests more of a reliance on the right hemisphere to process information, even when the left hemisphere would normally be more efficient for such processing. This may also explain the autistic child's difficulty in connecting present to past experiences. The left hemisphere is better able to relate stimuli to past experience of a subject, while the right is more able to process stimuli that are not easily identifiable or referable. Therefore, if autistic children are processing information with the right hemisphere alone, it would follow, th
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