@inproceedings{regneri-etal-2020-images,
    title = "Images and Imagination: Automated Analysis of Priming Effects Related to Autism Spectrum Disorder and Developmental Language Disorder",
    author = "Regneri, Michaela  and
      King, Diane  and
      Walji, Fahreen  and
      Palikara, Olympia",
    editor = "Chersoni, Emmanuele  and
      Jacobs, Cassandra  and
      Oseki, Yohei  and
      Pr{\'e}vot, Laurent  and
      Santus, Enrico",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics",
    month = nov,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.cmcl-1.2",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.cmcl-1.2",
    pages = "11--27",
    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.",
}