Extraction and generalisation of category-level information during visual statistical learning in autistic people.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We examined whether information extracted during a visual statistical learning task could be generalised from specific exemplars to semantically similar ones. We then looked at whether performance in autistic people differed to non-autistic people during a visual statistical learning task and specifically examined whether differences in performance between groups occurred when sequential information was presented at a semantic level. We did this by assessing recall performance using a two-alternative forced choice paradigm after presenting participants with a sequence of naturalistic scene images.

Methods

125 adult participants (61 participants with an autism diagnosis and 64 non-autistic controls) were presented with a fast serial presentation sequence of images

SUBMITTER: Parsons O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10237412 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature