Language in autism: domains, profiles and co-occurring conditions

J Schaeffer, M Abd El-Raziq, E Castroviejo… - Journal of Neural …, 2023 - Springer
This article reviews the current knowledge state on pragmatic and structural language
abilities in autism and their potential relation to extralinguistic abilities and autistic traits. The …

Statistical learning research: A critical review and possible new directions.

R Frost, BC Armstrong, MH Christiansen - Psychological Bulletin, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Statistical learning (SL) is involved in a wide range of basic and higher-order cognitive
functions and is taken to be an important building block of virtually all current theories of …

How does the brain learn environmental structure? Ten core principles for understanding the neurocognitive mechanisms of statistical learning

CM Conway - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite a growing body of research devoted to the study of how humans encode
environmental patterns, there is still no clear consensus about the nature of the …

Infant statistical learning

JR Saffran, NZ Kirkham - Annual review of psychology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Perception involves making sense of a dynamic, multimodal environment. In the absence of
mechanisms capable of exploiting the statistical patterns in the natural world, infants would …

Prediction in autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review of empirical evidence

J Cannon, AM O'Brien, L Bungert, P Sinha - Autism research, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
According to a recent influential proposal, several phenotypic features of autism spectrum
disorder (ASD) may be accounted for by differences in predictive skills between individuals …

Is a procedural learning deficit a causal risk factor for developmental language disorder or dyslexia? A meta-analytic review.

G West, M Melby-Lervåg, C Hulme - Developmental Psychology, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Impaired procedural learning has been suggested as a possible cause of developmental
dyslexia (DD) and developmental language disorder (DLD). We evaluate this theory by …

Statistical word learning in children with autism spectrum disorder and specific language impairment

E Haebig, JR Saffran… - Journal of Child …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Background Word learning is an important component of language development that
influences child outcomes across multiple domains. Despite the importance of word …

Statistical learning in specific language impairment: A meta-analysis

I Lammertink, P Boersma, F Wijnen, J Rispens - Journal of Speech …, 2017 - ASHA
Purpose The current meta-analysis provides a quantitative overview of published and
unpublished studies on statistical learning in the auditory verbal domain in people with and …

An implicit–explicit framework for intervention methods in developmental language disorder

LS Baron, Y Arbel - American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2022 - ASHA
Purpose: The growing interest in framing intervention approaches as either implicit or
explicit calls for a discussion of what makes intervention approaches engage each of these …

Slower processing speed in autism spectrum disorder: A meta-analytic investigation of time-based tasks

NM Zapparrata, PJ Brooks, TM Ober - Journal of Autism and …, 2023 - Springer
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental condition affecting
information processing across domains. The current meta-analysis investigated whether …