ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2018
Statistical Learning is Associated with Autism Symptoms and Verbal Abilities in Young Children with Autism.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A systematic review of statistical learning in autism spectrum disorder.Molecular autism · 2025Pooled it
- Digital tools for direct assessment of autism risk during early childhood: A systematic review.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2024Pooled it
- Aberrant Neural Entrainment to Word-Level Speech Patterns in Fragile X Syndrome: Evidence for a Statistical Learning Deficit.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026Article
- Social enhancement of associative learning in neurotypical, speaking autistic, and minimally speaking autistic preschoolers.Molecular autism · 2026Article
- Visual statistical learning and social attention in neurotypical, minimally speaking and speaking autistic preschoolers.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Aberrant Neural Entrainment to Word-Level Speech Patterns in Fragile X Syndrome: Evidence for a Statistical Learning Deficit.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Statistical learning across cognitive and affective domains: a multidimensional review.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2025Review
- Dissociation Between Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Statistical Learning in Children with Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
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- Learning and generalization of repetition-based rules in autism.Psychological research · 2023Article
- Language in autism: domains, profiles and co-occurring conditions.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2023Review
- Atypical cognitive training-induced learning and brain plasticity and their relation to insistence on sameness in children with autism.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Extraction and generalisation of category-level information during visual statistical learning in autistic people.PloS one · 2023Article
- Dysfunctions in Infants' Statistical Learning are Related to Parental Autistic Traits.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2021Article
- Implicit and Explicit Memory in Youths with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Case-Control Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Statistical Learning and Social Competency: The Mediating Role of Language.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- To What Extent Can Statistical Learning Explain Language Profiles in Autism? Methodological and Theoretical Challenges.Autism & developmental language impairmentsArticle
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Abstract
Statistical learning-extracting regularities in the environment-may underlie complex social behavior. 124 children, 56 with autism and 68 typically developing, ages 2-8 years, completed a novel visual statistical learning task on an iPad. Averaged together, children with autism demonstrated less learning on the task compared to typically developing children. However, multivariate classification analyses characterized individual behavior patterns, and demonstrated a subset of children with autism had similar learning patterns to typically developing children and that subset of children had less severe autism symptoms. Therefore, statistically averaging data resulted in missing critical heterogeneity. Variability in statistical learning may help to understand differences in autism symptoms across individuals and could be used to tailor and inform treatment decisions.
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