Language-Vision Interface

Our research focused on how children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) integrate linguistic and visual information to construct coherent representations of dynamic scenes. Using a visual world paradigm, we compared the performance of children with ASD and typically developing children. While the ASD group showed quicker identification of target objects after hearing sentences with constraining verbs, they did not exhibit anticipatory eye movements. These findings suggest that the processing of verb-semantic information may differ for children with ASD and warrant further investigation.

Oral Presentation:

2022  Enhanced visual-linguistic interaction in children within the autism 

spectrum: Evidence from the visual-world paradigm with dynamic scenes

   43rd CogSci. July 27-30. Joint work with Debrah Martins, Roberto de Almeida, 

and Jessie Gratton

Thesis:

2022      Jessie Gratton

“Seeing and hearing the world: How is it different in children with autism?”