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Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

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13-04-2018 | Original Paper

Adults with Autism Tend to Undermine the Hidden Environmental Structure: Evidence from a Visual Associative Learning Task

Auteurs: Laurie-Anne Sapey-Triomphe, Sandrine Sonié, Marie-Anne Hénaff, Jérémie Mattout, Christina Schmitz

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 9/2018

Abstract

The learning-style theory of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) (Qian, Lipkin, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 5:77, 2011) states that ASD individuals differ from neurotypics in the way they learn and store information about the environment and its structure. ASD would rather adopt a lookup-table strategy (LUT: memorizing each experience), while neurotypics would favor an interpolation style (INT: extracting regularities to generalize). In a series of visual behavioral tasks, we tested this hypothesis in 20 neurotypical and 20 ASD adults. ASD participants had difficulties using the INT style when instructions were hidden but not when instructions were revealed. Rather than an inability to use rules, ASD would be characterized by a disinclination to generalize and infer such rules.

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Titel: Adults with Autism Tend to Undermine the Hidden Environmental Structure: Evidence from a Visual Associative Learning Task
Auteurs: Laurie-Anne Sapey-Triomphe
Sandrine Sonié
Marie-Anne Hénaff
Jérémie Mattout
Christina Schmitz
Publicatiedatum: 13-04-2018
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 9/2018
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-018-3574-1

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