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Effects of predictability on visual and linguistic narrative comprehension in autistic and non-autistic adults
Kubinski,Sarah Brothers,Trevor Cohn,Neil Coderre,Emily L.
Kubinski,Sarah
Brothers,Trevor
Cohn,Neil
Coderre,Emily L.
Abstract
Autistic individuals sometimes show differences from non-autistic individuals when understanding stories, regardless of whether those stories are told through words or pictures. In narrative comprehension, predicting upcoming words or events in a story may facilitate understanding. In studies measuring event-related potentials (ERPs) with non-autistic adults, more predictable words in a linguistic narrative or panels in a visual narrative typically elicit reduced N400 amplitudes compared to less predictable words/panels. However, the predictive processes used by autistic individuals may differ from those used by non-autistic individuals, which could contribute to differences in narrative comprehension. Here, we report two studies examining predictive processing in linguistic and visual narrative comprehension among autistic and non-autistic adults. Autistic adults showed earlier N400 modulations by cloze compared to non-autistic adults in both linguistic and visual modalities, which may reflect a more bottom-up processing style that relies less on active prediction of upcoming words or events.
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Publisher Copyright: © 2024 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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2024-10-08
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Narrative comprehension, autism, electroencephalography, event-related potentials, prediction, semantic processing
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Kubinski, S, Brothers, T, Cohn, N & Coderre, E L 2024, 'Effects of predictability on visual and linguistic narrative comprehension in autistic and non-autistic adults', Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2411698
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