Finaba Berete, Lydia Gisle, Stefaan Demarest, Rana Charafeddine, Olivier Bruyère, Stephan Van den Broucke, Johan Van der Heyden
Does health literacy mediate the relationship between socioeconomic status and health related outcomes in the Belgian adult population?
BMC public health
children autism spectrum disorders asd exhibit deficit spontaneously recognizing abstract similarities crucial generalizing learning new situations may contribute deficits development appropriate schemas navigating novel situations including social interactions analogical reasoning central cognitive mechanism enables typically developing children understand abstract similarities different situations intriguingly studies highfunctioning children asd point relative cognitive strength basic nonabstract forms analogical reasoning analogical reasoning ability extends abstract analogical reasoning ie superficially dissimilar situations may provide bridge cognitive capability core asd deficits areas generalization categorization study tested whether preserved analogical reasoning abilities asd extended abstract analogical reasoning using photographs realworld items situations abstractness analogies determined via quantitative measure semantic distance derived latent semantic analysis children asd performed well typically developing children identifying abstract analogical similarities explicitly instructed apply analogical reasoning individual differences abstract analogical reasoning ability predicted individual differences measure social function asd group preliminary analyses indicated children asd typically developing children showed effect age abstract analogical reasoning results provide new evidence children asd capable identifying abstract similarities analogical reasoning pointing abstract analogical reasoning potential lever improving generalization skills social function asd