Motor abilities in autism: a review using a computational context

E Gowen, A Hamilton - Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2013‏ - Springer
Altered motor behaviour is commonly reported in Autism Spectrum Disorder, but the
aetiology remains unclear. Here, we have taken a computational approach in order to break …

Underpowered samples, false negatives, and unconscious learning

MA Vadillo, E Konstantinidis, DR Shanks - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2016‏ - Springer
The scientific community has witnessed growing concern about the high rate of false
positives and unreliable results within the psychological literature, but the harmful impact of …

Language acquisition in autism spectrum disorders: A developmental review

IM Eigsti, AB de Marchena, JM Schuh… - Research in autism …, 2011‏ - Elsevier
This paper reviews the complex literature on language acquisition in the autism spectrum
disorders (ASD). Because of the high degree of interest in ASD in the past decade, the field …

The best time to acquire new skills: Age‐related differences in implicit sequence learning across the human lifespan

K Janacsek, J Fiser, D Nemeth - Developmental science, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
Implicit skill learning underlies obtaining not only motor, but also cognitive and social skills
through the life of an individual. Yet, the ontogenetic changes in humans' implicit learning …

A compensatory role for declarative memory in neurodevelopmental disorders

MT Ullman, MY Pullman - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Most research on neurodevelopmental disorders has focused on their abnormalities.
However, what remains intact may also be important. Increasing evidence suggests that …

Memory in autistic spectrum disorder.

J Boucher, A Mayes, S Bigham - Psychological bulletin, 2012‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Behavioral evidence concerning memory in forms of high-functioning autism (HFA) and in
moderately low-functioning autism (M-LFA) is reviewed and compared. Findings on M-LFA …

Investigating implicit statistical learning mechanisms through contextual cueing

A Goujon, A Didierjean, S Thorpe - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2015‏ - cell.com
Since its inception, the contextual cueing (CC) paradigm has generated considerable
interest in various fields of cognitive sciences because it constitutes an elegant approach to …

Statistical learning in specific language impairment and autism spectrum disorder: A meta-analysis

R Obeid, PJ Brooks, KL Powers… - Frontiers in …, 2016‏ - frontiersin.org
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 …

Intact implicit learning in autism spectrum conditions

J Brown, B Aczel, L Jiménez… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2010‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Individuals with autism spectrum condition (ASC) have diagnostic impairments in skills that
are associated with an implicit acquisition; however, it is not clear whether ASC individuals …

Sleep has no critical role in implicit motor sequence learning in young and old adults

D Nemeth, K Janacsek, Z Londe, MT Ullman… - Experimental brain …, 2010‏ - Springer
The influence of sleep on motor skill consolidation has been a research topic of increasing
interest. In this study, we distinguished general skill learning from sequence-specific …