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6-month-old infants who struggle to understand and predict sequences are more likely to have social communication difficulties aged 2-3, highlighting visual statistical learning as a potential predictor of autistic-related traits

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Visual statistical learning in preverbal infants at a higher likelihood of autism and its association with later social communication skills

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Credit: Bettoni et al., CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

6-month-old infants who struggle to understand and predict sequences are more likely to have social communication difficulties aged 2-3, highlighting visual statistical learning as a potential predictor of autistic-related traits

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0300274

Article Title: Visual statistical learning in preverbal infants at a higher likelihood of autism and its association with later social communication skills

Author Countries: Italy

Funding: VR, CC and MM received funded by the Italian Ministry of Health (Ricerca Corrente and 5 per mille funds for biomedical research). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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