Pragmatics

A poster on the impact of bias and knowlede about sepaker neurotype on teh learning and memory of novel words.

A poster on the engagement of the mentalizing system during novel word learning between different sentenial contexts in adulthood.

A poster on autistic adults’ engagement of the mentalizing system during novel word learning and its connections to the memory system.

A poster on the connections within the social-cognitive system and between it and the memory system during word learning in autistic and non-autistic adults.

Mentalizing skills—the capacity to attribute mental states—play critical roles in word learning during typical language development. In …

Children can acquire novel word meanings by using pragmatic cues. However, previous literature has frequently focused on in‐the‐moment …

A poster on priming neurotypical adults’ theory-of-mind to modulate word learning and memory.

Theory-of-mind (ToM) plays a critical role in early language acquisition. However, whether ToM continues to support word learning in …

A talk on the behavioral profiles of autistic children’s mapping and retention of novel words.

A technical session on autistic children’s encoding and retrieval of pragmatically inferred words.