Researchers have generally considered autistic individuals to have difficulties generalising
learned skills across novel contexts. Successful generalisation is necessary for an …

A suite of recent studies has reported positive genetic correlations between autism risk and
measures of mental ability. These findings indicate that alleles for autism overlap broadly …

The ability to categorize is fundamental to cognitive development. Some categories emerge
effortlessly and rapidly while others can take years of experience to acquire. Children with …

Background and aims The 'dual-systems' model of language acquisition has been used by
Ullman et al. to explain patterns of strength and weakness in the language of higher …

Background Categorization and its influence on perceptual discrimination are essential
processes to organize information efficiently. Individuals with Autism Spectrum Condition …

Autism is diagnosed according to atypical social-communication and repetitive behaviors.
However, autistic individuals are also distinctive in the high variability of specific abilities …

Individuals with autism spectrum condition (ASC) are suggested to experience difficulties
with categorization and generalization. However, empirical studies have mainly focused on …

Similarity-based categorization, as an important cognitive skill, can be performed by
abstracting a categories' central tendency, the so-called prototype, or by memorizing …

Transitive inference (TI) has a long history in the study of human development. There have,
however, few pediatric studies that report clinical diagnoses have tested trial‐and‐error TI …

Individuals learn to classify percepts effectively when the task is initially easy and then
gradually increases in difficulty. Some suggest that this is because easy-to-discriminate …