ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2020
Small Semantic Networks in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder Without Intellectual Impairment: A Verbal Fluency Approach.
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- Atypical structural connectivity of language networks in autism spectrum disorder: A meta-analysis of diffusion tensor imaging studies.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2022Pooled it
- Leveraging relatedness-based measures in people with language disorders: A scoping review.Journal of neuropsychology · 2025Article
- Age-related differences in the intrinsic connectivity of the hippocampus and ventral temporal lobe in autistic individuals.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- Language Skill Differences Further Distinguish Social Sub-types in Children with Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- Oromotor skills in autism spectrum disorder: A scoping review.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2023Article
- Linguistic findings in persons with schizophrenia-a review of the current literature.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Tackling emotional processing in adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder + autism spectrum disorder using emotional and action verbal fluency tasks.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Abnormal Prefrontal Functional Connectivity Is Associated with Inflexible Information Processing in Patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): An fNIRS Study.Biomedicines · 2022Article
- Intact fluency in autism? A comprehensive approach of verbal fluency task including word imageability and concreteness.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2022Article
- Transdiagnostic symptom subtypes across autism spectrum disorders and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: validated by measures of neurocognition and structural connectivity.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
- Effects of working memory load on frontal connectivity in children with autism spectrum disorder: a fNIRS study.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Aberrant prefrontal functional connectivity during verbal fluency test is associated with reading comprehension deficits in autism spectrum disorder: An fNIRS study.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- A Vector Space Model for Neural Network Functions: Inspirations From Similarities Between the Theory of Connectivity and the Logarithmic Time Course of Word Production.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2020Article
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Abstract
Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) experience a variety of symptoms sometimes including atypicalities in language use. The study explored differences in semantic network organisation of adults with ASD without intellectual impairment. We assessed clusters and switches in verbal fluency tasks ('animals', 'human feature', 'verbs', 'r-words') via curve fitting in combination with corpus-driven analysis of semantic relatedness and evaluated socio-emotional and motor action related content. Compared to participants without ASD (n = 39), participants with ASD (n = 32) tended to produce smaller clusters, longer switches, and fewer words in semantic conditions (no p values survived Bonferroni-correction), whereas relatedness and content were similar. In ASD, semantic networks underlying cluster formation appeared comparably small without affecting strength of associations or content.
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