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ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2024

Autistic Adults Show Intact Learning on a Visuospatial Serial Reaction Time Task.

Isaac N Treves, Jonathan Cannon, Eren Shin, Cindy E Li, Lindsay Bungert, Amanda O'Brien, Annie Cardinaux, Pawan Sinha, John D E Gabrieli

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Article in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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  1. Intact Visual Correlation Detection in Autistic Adults.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026
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Isaac N TrevesDepartment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 43 Vassar Street 46-4077, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA. treves@mit.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7802-6145
Jonathan CannonDepartment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 43 Vassar Street 46-4077, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Eren ShinDepartment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 43 Vassar Street 46-4077, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Cindy E LiHock E. Tan and K. Lisa Yang Center for Autism Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.
Lindsay BungertDepartment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 43 Vassar Street 46-4077, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Amanda O'BrienDepartment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 43 Vassar Street 46-4077, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Annie CardinauxDepartment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 43 Vassar Street 46-4077, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Pawan Sinha *Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 43 Vassar Street 46-4077, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
John D E Gabrieli *Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 43 Vassar Street 46-4077, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Some theories have proposed that autistic individuals have difficulty learning predictive relationships. We tested this hypothesis using a serial reaction time task in which participants learned to predict the locations of a repeating sequence of target locations. We conducted a large-sample online study with 61 autistic and 71 neurotypical adults. The autistic group had slower overall reaction times, but demonstrated sequence-specific learning equivalent to the neurotypical group, consistent with other findings of typical procedural memory in autism. The neurotypical group, however, made significantly more prediction-related errors early in the experiment when the stimuli changed from repeated sequences to random locations, suggesting certain limited behavioural differences in the learning or utilization of predictive relationships for autistic adults.

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Autism Spectrum DisorderAutistic DisorderChild Development Disorders, PervasiveAdultChildHumansLearningReaction TimeAutismPredictionProcedural learningSRT task

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PMID36641542
PMCPMC10981634

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