caa a22 4500 46325127X CHVBK 20180405153340.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10803-006-0162-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10803-006-0162-6 Priming the Meaning of Homographs in Typically Developing Children and Children with Autism [Elektronische Daten] [Suzanne Hala, Penny Pexman, Melanie Glenwright] Two explanations for deficits underlying autism were tested: weak central coherence (WCC) and executive dysfunction. Consistent with WCC, Happé (British Journal of Developmental Psychology 15 (1997) 1) found that children with autism failed to use sentence context in pronouncing homographs. In an alternate approach, we investigated whether children with autism can use meanings of related word primes. We presented children with autism and controls with primes for homographs, semantically related, and unrelated targets. Children with autism used primes to correctly pronounce homographs upon first presentation but showed difficulty inhibiting prior responses upon later presentation of the homographs with different primes. Children with autism also showed semantic priming effects. We conclude that children with autism do not show an absolute deficit in ability to use contextual information. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 Autism nationallicence Cognition nationallicence Executive function nationallicence Weak central coherence nationallicence Priming nationallicence Homographs nationallicence Hala Suzanne Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada aut Pexman Penny Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada aut Glenwright Melanie Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada aut Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 37/2(2007-02-01), 329-340 0162-3257 37:2<329 2007 37 10803 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-006-0162-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-006-0162-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hala Suzanne Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pexman Penny Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Glenwright Melanie Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 37/2(2007-02-01), 329-340 0162-3257 37:2<329 2007 37 10803 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer