Testing the Predictive Power of Cognitive Atypicalities in Autistic Children: Evidence from a 3‐Year Follow‐Up Study
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This follow‐up study investigated the predictive power of early cognitive atypicalities. Specifically, it examined whether early individual differences in specific cognitive skills, including theory of mind, executive function, and central coherence, could uniquely account for variation in autistic children's behaviors—social communication, repetitive behaviors, and interests and insistence on sameness—at follow‐up. Thirty‐seven cognitively able children with an autism spectrum condition were assessed on tests tapping verbal and nonverbal ability, theory of mind (false‐belief prediction), executive function (planning ability, cognitive flexibility, and inhibitory control), and central coherence (local processing) at intake and their behavioral functioning (social communication, repetitive behaviors and interests, insistence on sameness) 3 years later. Individual differences in early executive but not theory of mind skills predicted variation in children's social communication. Individual differences in children's early executive function also predicted the degree of repetitive behaviors and interests at follow‐up. There were no predictive relationships between early central coherence and children's insistence on sameness. These findings challenge the notion that distinct cognitive atypicalities map on to specific behavioral features of autism. Instead, early variation in executive function plays a key role in helping to shape autistic children's emerging behaviors, including their social communication and repetitive behaviors and interests. Autism Res 2013, ●●: ●●–●●. © 2013 International Society for Autism Research, Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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The current findings support and extend existing longitudinal work demonstrating significant links between early executive function skills and later behavior in cognitively able autistic people.
“The current findings support and extend existing longitudinal work demonstrating significant links between early EF skills and later behavior in cognitively-able autistic people (Berger et al. 2003;Pellicano 2013;Pugliese et al. 2016;Szatmari et al. 1989)”
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- Authors
- Pellicano, E.
- Affiliations
- University of London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Pellicano, Elizabeth
- ORCID
- Pellicano, Elizabeth
- Venue
- Autism Research
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2013-03-14
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 258-267
- ISSN
- 1939-3792 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-3806
- OpenAlex
- W2116534739
- Cited by
- 62
- References
- 59
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 9 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 4
- FWCI
- 3.47
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Autism Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UWA Profiles and Research Repository (UWA) (submittedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Experimental Psychology Society
- British Academy
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Keywords
- autism spectrum disorder, children with autism, executive function, theory of mind, central coherence, social communication, repetitive behavior, insistence on sameness, individual differences, cognitive flexibility, inhibitory control, planning skills, local processing
- MeSH terms
- Autistic Disorder, Child, Child Development, Child, Preschool, Cognition Disorders, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Individuality, Male, Neuropsychological Tests, Predictive Value of Tests, Task Performance and Analysis, Executive Function, Theory of Mind
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