This article reviews the current knowledge state on pragmatic and structural language
abilities in autism and their potential relation to extralinguistic abilities and autistic traits. The …

Despite a growing body of research devoted to the study of how humans encode
environmental patterns, there is still no clear consensus about the nature of the …

Insistence on sameness and intolerance of change are among the diagnostic criteria for
autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but little research has addressed how people with ASD …

Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly
revised edition of the bestselling Cognitive Development. The new edition of this full-colour …

Perception involves making sense of a dynamic, multimodal environment. In the absence of
mechanisms capable of exploiting the statistical patterns in the natural world, infants would …

Background The tremendous clinical and aetiological diversity among individuals with
autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been a major obstacle to the development of new …

Developmental research using electroencephalography (EEG) offers valuable insights in
brain processes early in life, but at the same time, applying this sensitive technique to young …

A growing body of research investigates individual differences in the learning of statistical
structure, tying them to variability in cognitive (dis) abilities. This approach views statistical …

Impairments in statistical learning might be a common deficit among individuals with Specific
Language Impairment (SLI) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Using meta-analysis, we …

The central argument presented in this paper is that statistical learning (SL) is an ability
comprised of multiple components that operate largely implicitly. Components relating to the …