ArticleFrontiers in psychology2018
Observational Learning in Low-Functioning Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Behavioral and Neuroimaging Study.
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- Early muscle hypotonia as a potential marker for autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- The neuroscience of social feelings: mechanisms of adaptive social functioning.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2021Pooled it
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- Cerebrovascular and cognitive responses to bilateral simultaneous versus unilateral alternating quadriceps electrical muscle stimulation in healthy young men.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Article
- Learning by Social Interactions: Insights into Observational Learning in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Targeting neuroplasticity in old brain: restoring synapse with cognitive strategies.Biogerontology · 2026Review
- The Role of the Different Components of Attention on Observational Learning in Early Primary School Children: New Insights and Educational Implications.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Individual differences in autism-like traits are associated with reduced goal emulation in a computational model of observational learning.Nature. Mental health · 2024Article
- The Best of Two Different Visual Instructions in Improving Precision Ball-Throwing and Standing Long Jump Performances in Primary School Children.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2022Article
- Procedural Learning through Action Observation: Preliminary Evidence from Virtual Gardening Activity in Intellectual Disability.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Perceptual category learning in autism spectrum disorder: Truth and consequences.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2020Review
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Abstract
New skills may be learned from the outcomes of their own internally generated actions (experiential learning) or from the observation of the consequences of externally generated actions (observational learning). Observational learning requires the coordination of cognitive functions and the processing of social information. Due to the "social" abilities underlying observational learning, the study of this process in individuals with limited social abilities such as those affected by Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is worthy of being investigated. We asked a group of 16 low-functioning young children with ASD and group of 16 sex- and mental age-matched typically developing (TD) children to build a house with a set of bricks after a video-demonstration showing an actor who built the house (observational task - OBS task) and then to build by trial and error another house (experiential task - EXP task). For ASD group, performances in learning tasks were correlated with measures of cortical thickness of specific Regions of Interest (ROI) and volume of deep gray matter structures known to be related with such kinds of learning. According to our
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