Prediction by Young Autistic Children from Visual and Spoken Input.
Recent theoretical accounts suggest that differences in the processing of probabilistic events underlie the core and associated traits of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). These theories hypothesize that autistic individuals are differentially impacted by disruptions in probabilistic input relative to...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders Vol. 56; no. 2; pp. 574 - 587 |
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Springer Nature
Feb2026
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=191290378&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 191290378 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 01623257 AUT jtl: Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders issn: 01623257 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Feb2026 vid: 56 iid: 2 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 191290378 180059862 191290378 191290378 10.1007/s10803-024-06568-z 191290378 ppf: 574 ppct: 13 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Prediction by Young Autistic Children from Visual and Spoken Input. aug: au: Mathée-Scott, Janine Prescott, Kathryn E. Pomper, Ron Saffran, Jenny Weismer, Susan Ellis affil: https://ror.org/01y2jtd41 Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 1975 Willow Dr, 53706, Madison, WI, USA sug: subj: Autism Spectrum Disorder In Infancy and Childhood Visual Perception In Infancy and Childhood Auditory Perception In Infancy and Childhood Human Child Child, Preschool Descriptive Statistics Child Behavior Male Female Cognition Scales Videorecording Language Data Analysis Software Funding Source Odds Ratio Child: 6-12 years Child, Preschool: 2-5 years Male Female ab: Recent theoretical accounts suggest that differences in the processing of probabilistic events underlie the core and associated traits of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). These theories hypothesize that autistic individuals are differentially impacted by disruptions in probabilistic input relative to neurotypical peers. According to this view, autistic individuals assign disproportionate weight to prediction errors such that novel input is overweighted relative to the aggregation of prior input; this is referred to as 'hyperplasticity' of learning. Prediction among autistic individuals has primarily been examined in nonverbal, visual contexts with older children and adults. The present study examined 32 autistic and 32 cognitively-matched neurotypical (NT) children's ability to generate predictions and adjust to changes in predictive relationships in auditory stimuli using two eye gaze tasks. In both studies, children were trained and tested on an auditory-visual cue which predicted the location of a reward stimulus. In Experiment 1 the cue was non-linguistic (instrumental sound) whereas in Experiment 2 the cue was linguistically-relevant (speaker gender). In both experiments, the cue-reward contingency was switched after the first block of trials, and predictive behavior was evaluated across a second block of trials. Analyses of children's looking behavior revealed similar performance in both groups on the non-linguistic task (Exp. 1). In the linguistically-relevant task (Exp. 2), predictive looking was less disrupted by the contingency switch for autistic children than NT children. Results suggest that autistic children may demonstrate hyperplastic learning in linguistically-relevant contexts, relative to NT peers. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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