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Isaac N. Treves, Jonathan Cannon, Eren Shin, Cindy E. Li, Lindsay Bungert, Amanda O’Brien, Annie Cardinaux, Pawan Sinha, et al. (2024). Autistic Adults Show Intact Learning on a Visuospatial Serial Reaction Time Task. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 54(4), 1549-1557. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
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Abstract Some theories have proposed that autistic individuals have difficulty learning predictive relationships. We tested this hypothesis using a serial reaction time task in which participants learned to predict the locations of a repeating sequence of target locations. We conducted a large-sample online study with 61 autistic and 71 neurotypical adults. The autistic group had slower overall reaction times, but demonstrated sequence-specific learning equivalent to the neurotypical group, consistent with other findings of typical procedural memory in autism. The neurotypical group, however, made significantly more prediction-related errors early in the experiment when the stimuli changed from repeated sequences to random locations, suggesting certain limited behavioural differences in the learning or utilization of predictive relationships for autistic adults.
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