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  • Neuroscience
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Autism Research

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  • Syntactic language comprehension relies on Prefrontal Synthesis (PFS), an executive function involving mental visuospatial manipulation.
  • Autistic individuals frequently exhibit deficits in PFS, impacting language development.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the developmental trajectory of PFS in autistic and neurotypical individuals.
  • To differentiate between a persistent, age-independent barrier versus an age-dependent factor (critical period) for PFS acquisition in autism.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of parent-reported PFS development in a large cohort (15,183 autistic, 138 neurotypical) aged 2-22 years.
  • Comparison of PFS learning rates between autistic and neurotypical individuals across different age groups.

Main Results:

  • At age 2, both groups demonstrated comparable PFS learning rates.
  • Neurotypical individuals maintained high learning rates until age 7.
  • Autistic individuals exhibited an exponential decline in PFS learning rates starting around 2.3 years, earlier in severe cases.

Conclusions:

  • Findings support an age-dependent model for PFS deficits in autism.
  • A shortened critical period for PFS acquisition is implicated as a potential cause for these deficits.