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Predictive Processing during a Naturalistic Statistical Learning Task in ASD.
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- Neurobiology of language in autism: a systematic review of pediatric studies.Brain imaging and behavior · 2026Pooled it
- A systematic review of statistical learning in autism spectrum disorder.Molecular autism · 2025Pooled it
- Autism Spectrum Disorder and auditory sensory alterations: a systematic review on the integrity of cognitive and neuronal functions related to auditory processing.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2023Pooled it
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- 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
- Non-social Language Exposure Facilitates Autistic Children's Language Learning.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- 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
- Do autistic individuals show atypical performance in probabilistic learning? A comparison of cue-number, predictive strength, and prediction error.Molecular autism · 2025Article
- Probabilistic Learning of Cue-Outcome Associations is not Influenced by Autistic Traits.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Article
- Cerebellar Contributions to Social Cognition in ASD: A Predictive Processing Framework.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2022Review
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Abstract
Children's sensitivity to regularities within the linguistic stream, such as the likelihood that syllables co-occur, is foundational to speech segmentation and language acquisition. Yet, little is known about the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying speech segmentation in typical development and in neurodevelopmental disorders that impact language acquisition such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Here, we investigate the neural signals of statistical learning in 15 human participants (children ages 8-12) with a clinical diagnosis of ASD and 14 age-matched and gender-matched typically developing peers. We tracked the evoked neural responses to syllable sequences in a naturalistic statistical learning corpus using magnetoencephalography (MEG) in the left primary auditory cortex, posterior superior temporal gyrus (pSTG), and inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), across three repetitions of the passage. In typically developing children, we observed a neural index of learning in all three regions of interest (ROIs), measured by the change in evoked response amplitude as a function of syllable surprisal across passage repetitions. As surprisal increased, the amplitude of the neural response increased; this sensitivity emerged after repeated exposure to the corpus. Children with ASD did not show this pattern of learning in all three regions. We discuss two possible hypotheses related to children's sensitivity to bottom-up sensory deficits and difficulty with top-down incremental processing.
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