Modeling flexible behavior in childhood to adulthood shows age-dependent learning mechanisms and less optimal learning in autism in each age group.

Modeling flexible behavior in childhood to adulthood shows age-dependent learning mechanisms and less optimal learning in autism in each age group.

Flexible behavior is critical for everyday decision-making and has been implicated in restricted, repetitive behaviors (RRB) in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, how flexible behavior changes developmentally in ASD remains largely unknown. Here, we used a developmental approach and examined f...

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Main Authors: Daisy Crawley, Lei Zhang, Emily J H Jones, Jumana Ahmad, Bethany Oakley, Antonia San José Cáceres, Tony Charman, Jan K Buitelaar, Declan G M Murphy, Christopher Chatham, Hanneke den Ouden, Eva Loth, EU-AIMS LEAP group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-10-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000908

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000908

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