Images and Imagination: Automated Analysis of Priming Effects Related to Autism Spectrum Disorder and Developmental Language Disorder

Michaela Regneri, Diane King, Fahreen Walji, Olympia Palikara


Abstract
Different aspects of language processing have been shown to be sensitive to priming but the findings of studies examining priming effects in adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) have been inconclusive. We present a study analysing visual and implicit semantic priming in adolescents with ASD and DLD. Based on a dataset of fictional and script-like narratives, we evaluate how often and how extensively, content of two different priming sources is used by the participants. The first priming source was visual, consisting of images shown to the participants to assist them with their storytelling. The second priming source originated from commonsense knowledge, using crowdsourced data containing prototypical script elements. Our results show that individuals with ASD are less sensitive to both types of priming, but show typical usage of primed cues when they use them at all. In contrast, children with DLD show mostly average priming sensitivity, but exhibit an over-proportional use of the priming cues.
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2020.cmcl-1.2
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics
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November
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2020
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Online
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Emmanuele Chersoni, Cassandra Jacobs, Yohei Oseki, Laurent Prévot, Enrico Santus
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CMCL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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11–27
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.cmcl-1.2
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10.18653/v1/2020.cmcl-1.2
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Michaela Regneri, Diane King, Fahreen Walji, and Olympia Palikara. 2020. Images and Imagination: Automated Analysis of Priming Effects Related to Autism Spectrum Disorder and Developmental Language Disorder. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, pages 11–27, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Images and Imagination: Automated Analysis of Priming Effects Related to Autism Spectrum Disorder and Developmental Language Disorder (Regneri et al., CMCL 2020)
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