ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2018
Adults with Autism Tend to Underestimate the Hidden Environmental Structure: Evidence from a Visual Associative Learning Task.
Article in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 7 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Mismatch Negativity in Autism: Insights Into Predictive Mechanisms.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Pooled it
- Category learning in autistic individuals: A meta-analysis.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Pooled it
- Discrimination sensitivity of visual shapes sharpens in autistic adults but only after explicit category learning.Molecular autism · 2024Article
- Individual differences in absolute identification as a function of autistic trait levels.Cognitive processing · 2024Article
- A qualitative study of the transition to employment of former university students on the autism spectrum from Australia and New Zealand.International journal of developmental disabilities · 2024Article
- Disentangling sensory precision and prior expectation of change in autism during tactile discrimination.NPJ science of learning · 2023Article
- Sensory Integration and Perceptual-Motor Profiles in School-Aged Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
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5 authors.
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Abstract
The learning-style theory of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) (Qian, Lipkin, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 5:77, 2011) states that ASD individuals differ from neurotypics in the way they learn and store information about the environment and its structure. ASD would rather adopt a lookup-table strategy (LUT: memorizing each experience), while neurotypics would favor an interpolation style (INT: extracting regularities to generalize). In a series of visual behavioral tasks, we tested this hypothesis in 20 neurotypical and 20 ASD adults. ASD participants had difficulties using the INT style when instructions were hidden but not when instructions were revealed. Rather than an inability to use rules, ASD would be characterized by a disinclination to generalize and infer such rules.
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