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  • Neurodevelopmental Disorders

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  • Analogical reasoning is crucial for higher-order cognition.
  • Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is associated with atypical cognitive processing, including challenges in abstract reasoning.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate analogical reasoning, specifically spatial structure similarity detection, in children with ASD compared to typically developing (TD) children.
  • To examine the impact of perceptual distractors on analogical reasoning in children with ASD.

Main Methods:

  • Participants: Children with ASD (without intellectual disabilities) and TD children.
  • Task: Selecting targets based on spatial structure similarity under conditions with and without perceptual distractors.
  • Measures: Performance on analogical reasoning tasks and correlation with everyday executive functions.

Main Results:

  • Children with ASD successfully utilized structural similarity for analogical reasoning.
  • The presence of perceptual distractors significantly reduced the performance of children with ASD to chance levels.
  • Executive functions positively correlated with structural selections in children with ASD.

Conclusions:

  • Children with ASD can employ the systematicity principle in analogical reasoning.
  • Perceptual distractors disrupt spatial analogical reasoning in ASD by reducing the cognitive system's ability to process structural similarities.
  • Findings suggest that executive functions play a role in supporting analogical reasoning in ASD.