Figurative language processing in autism spectrum disorders: A review

S Lampri, E Peristeri, T Marinis, M Andreou - Autism Research, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Impairments in the broader domain of pragmatics are considered to be a defining feature of
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). A challenging aspect of pragmatic competence is the …

Figurative language processing in atypical populations: The ASD perspective

M Vulchanova, D Saldaña, S Chahboun… - Frontiers in human …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
This paper is intended to provide a critical overview of experimental and clinical research
documenting problems in figurative language processing in atypical populations with a …

A meta-analysis of the reading comprehension skills of individuals on the autism spectrum

HM Brown, J Oram-Cardy, A Johnson - Journal of autism and …, 2013 - Springer
This meta-analysis examined 36 studies comparing autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and
control groups in reading comprehension. Three moderators (semantic knowledge …

Early birds: Metaphor understanding in 3-year-olds

N Pouscoulous, M Tomasello - Journal of Pragmatics, 2020 - Elsevier
To assess children's cognitive capacities to understand (rather than explain or paraphrase)
metaphors, we investigated how 3-year-olds (n= 36; 3; 0–3; 3) fare with novel metaphors …

Who's missing the point? A commentary on claims that autistic persons have a specific deficit in figurative language comprehension

MA Gernsbacher, SR Pripas-Kapit - Metaphor and symbol, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
It's become a caricature of autistic persons that they don't understand figurative language.
Despite empirical evidence to the contrary, three of the four contributions to this special …

[HTML][HTML] Overlaps and distinctions between attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder in young adulthood: Systematic review and guiding …

A Lau-Zhu, A Fritz, G McLoughlin - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD)
frequently co-occur. However, we know little about the neural basis of the overlaps and …

Verbal creativity in autism: Comprehension and generation of metaphoric language in high-functioning autism spectrum disorder and typical development

A Kasirer, N Mashal - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Studies on creativity in participants with autism generally show impoverished performance
as well as deficient comprehension of metaphoric language. However, very little is known …

The relationship between subthreshold autistic traits, ambiguous figure perception and divergent thinking

C Best, S Arora, F Porter, M Doherty - Journal of autism and …, 2015 - Springer
This research investigates the paradox of creativity in autism. That is, whether people with
subclinical autistic traits have cognitive styles conducive to creativity or whether they are …

Metaphor comprehension and production in verbally able children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

S Lampri, E Peristeri, T Marinis, M Andreou - Autism Research, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Research in the field of figurative language processing in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
has demonstrated that autistic individuals experience systematic difficulties in the …

A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies on metaphor comprehension in individuals with autism spectrum disorder: Do task properties matter?

T Kalandadze, V Bambini, KAB Næss - Applied Psycholinguistics, 2019 - cambridge.org
Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often experience difficulty in
comprehending metaphors compared to individuals with typical development (TD) …