Figurative language processing in atypical populations: the ASD perspective

M Vulchanova, D Saldaña, S Chahboun… - Frontiers in human …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
This paper is intended to provide a critical overview of experimental and clinical research
documenting problems in figurative language processing in atypical populations with a …

Figurative language processing in autism spectrum disorders: A review

S Lampri, E Peristeri, T Marinis, M Andreou - Autism Research, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Impairments in the broader domain of pragmatics are considered to be a defining feature of
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). A challenging aspect of pragmatic competence is the …

A meta-analysis of the reading comprehension skills of individuals on the autism spectrum

HM Brown, J Oram-Cardy, A Johnson - Journal of autism and …, 2013 - Springer
This meta-analysis examined 36 studies comparing autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and
control groups in reading comprehension. Three moderators (semantic knowledge …

[图书][B] Abstract concepts and the embodied mind: Rethinking grounded cognition

G Dove - 2022 - books.google.com
Our thoughts depend on knowledge about objects, people, properties, and events. To think
about where we left our keys, what we are going to make for dinner, when we last fed the …

Early birds: Metaphor understanding in 3-year-olds

N Pouscoulous, M Tomasello - Journal of Pragmatics, 2020 - Elsevier
To assess children's cognitive capacities to understand (rather than explain or paraphrase)
metaphors, we investigated how 3-year-olds (n= 36; 3; 0–3; 3) fare with novel metaphors …

Who's missing the point? A commentary on claims that autistic persons have a specific deficit in figurative language comprehension

MA Gernsbacher, SR Pripas-Kapit - Metaphor and symbol, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
It's become a caricature of autistic persons that they don't understand figurative language.
Despite empirical evidence to the contrary, three of the four contributions to this special …

Verbal creativity in autism: Comprehension and generation of metaphoric language in high-functioning autism spectrum disorder and typical development

A Kasirer, N Mashal - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Studies on creativity in participants with autism generally show impoverished performance
as well as deficient comprehension of metaphoric language. However, very little is known …

[HTML][HTML] Overlaps and distinctions between attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder in young adulthood: Systematic review and guiding …

A Lau-Zhu, A Fritz, G McLoughlin - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD)
frequently co-occur. However, we know little about the neural basis of the overlaps and …

Metaphor processing in autism: A systematic review and meta-analysis

K Morsanyi, D Stamenković, KJ Holyoak - Developmental Review, 2020 - Elsevier
Impairments related to figurative language understanding have been considered to be one
of the diagnostic and defining features of autism. Metaphor comprehension and production …

The relationship between subthreshold autistic traits, ambiguous figure perception and divergent thinking

C Best, S Arora, F Porter, M Doherty - Journal of autism and …, 2015 - Springer
This research investigates the paradox of creativity in autism. That is, whether people with
subclinical autistic traits have cognitive styles conducive to creativity or whether they are …