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 …

Statistical learning (SL) is involved in a wide range of basic and higher-order cognitive
functions and is taken to be an important building block of virtually all current theories of …

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 …

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 …

According to a recent influential proposal, several phenotypic features of autism spectrum
disorder (ASD) may be accounted for by differences in predictive skills between individuals …

Impaired procedural learning has been suggested as a possible cause of developmental
dyslexia (DD) and developmental language disorder (DLD). We evaluate this theory by …

Background Word learning is an important component of language development that
influences child outcomes across multiple domains. Despite the importance of word …

Purpose The current meta-analysis provides a quantitative overview of published and
unpublished studies on statistical learning in the auditory verbal domain in people with and …

Purpose: The growing interest in framing intervention approaches as either implicit or
explicit calls for a discussion of what makes intervention approaches engage each of these …

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental condition affecting
information processing across domains. The current meta-analysis investigated whether …