Dysfunctions in Infants’ Statistical Learning are Related to Parental Autistic Traits

Statistical learning refers to the ability to extract the statistical relations embedded in a sequence, and it plays a crucial role in the development of communicative and social skills that are impacted in the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Here, we investigated the relationship between infants’ S...

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Autores principales: Roberta, Bettoni, Riva, Valentina, Cantiani, Chiara, Riboldi, Elena Maria, Molteni, Massimo, Macchi Cassia, Viola, Bulf, Hermann
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Publicado: Springer US 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8531064/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33582879
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-04894-0
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author Roberta, Bettoni
Riva, Valentina
Cantiani, Chiara
Riboldi, Elena Maria
Molteni, Massimo
Macchi Cassia, Viola
Bulf, Hermann
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description Statistical learning refers to the ability to extract the statistical relations embedded in a sequence, and it plays a crucial role in the development of communicative and social skills that are impacted in the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Here, we investigated the relationship between infants’ SL ability and autistic traits in their parents. Using a visual habituation task, we tested infant offspring of adults (non-diagnosed) who show high (HAT infants) versus low (LAT infants) autistic traits. Results demonstrated that LAT infants learned the statistical structure embedded in a visual sequence, while HAT infants failed. Moreover, infants’ SL ability was related to autistic traits in their parents, further suggesting that early dysfunctions in SL might contribute to variabilities in ASD symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-85310642021-11-04 Dysfunctions in Infants’ Statistical Learning are Related to Parental Autistic Traits Roberta, Bettoni Riva, Valentina Cantiani, Chiara Riboldi, Elena Maria Molteni, Massimo Macchi Cassia, Viola Bulf, Hermann J Autism Dev Disord Original Paper Statistical learning refers to the ability to extract the statistical relations embedded in a sequence, and it plays a crucial role in the development of communicative and social skills that are impacted in the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Here, we investigated the relationship between infants’ SL ability and autistic traits in their parents. Using a visual habituation task, we tested infant offspring of adults (non-diagnosed) who show high (HAT infants) versus low (LAT infants) autistic traits. Results demonstrated that LAT infants learned the statistical structure embedded in a visual sequence, while HAT infants failed. Moreover, infants’ SL ability was related to autistic traits in their parents, further suggesting that early dysfunctions in SL might contribute to variabilities in ASD symptoms. Springer US 2021-02-13 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8531064/ /pubmed/33582879 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-04894-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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