Abstract:Background: Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) exhibit highly variable language abilities. There is a great interest in whether statistical learning (SL), a fundamental mechanism for language development, is impaired in ASD. Nevertheless, mixed findings have been reported. Furthermore, recent studies in healthy populations suggest individuals vary in their SL ability across auditory and visual modalities as well as linguistic and nonlinguistic domains. Whether children with ASD show impaired SL in sp… Show more
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