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Autism research, explained
8 open-access autism studies, each with a flashcard deck and a quiz.
- Do autism traits link to emotional skills and mental flexibility?
People with higher autistic traits tend to have lower emotional intelligence and struggle more when switching between emotional rules during cognitive tasks.
- Grammar issues in autism: Looking beyond standard tests
By analyzing conversational speech, researchers identified a subgroup of children with autism who have average intelligence and vocabulary but struggle significantly with grammar.
- Do social and non-social attention combine to predict autism?
Infants who show both reduced social attention and slower attention disengagement are at the highest risk for developing autism, with these factors combining additively rather than interactively.
- Social Mind-Reading Profiles in Autistic Children
Autistic children without intellectual disabilities fall into two distinct mind-reading groups, but even those with strong testing skills struggle to apply them in daily life.
- Do looking patterns explain face recognition skills in autism?
Children who spend more time looking at faces rather than objects have better face-recognition skills, regardless of whether they have autism.
- How do adults with autism socially sync up during improvisation?
Adults with autism can achieve highly synchronized movement with a partner during creative play, though their synchronization is briefer and less frequent when trying to follow another's lead.
- How do children with autism perceive action styles?
Children with autism struggle to recognize subtle and neutral action styles, requiring larger physical differences to distinguish between gentle and rude movements.
- Is Language Impairment in Autism Unique?
While individuals with autism and those with syntactic developmental language impairment score similarly on language tests, their specific error types and underlying cognitive deficits are fundamentally different.