Melissa L Allen

Summary

Affiliation: Lancaster University
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi Brief report: decoding representations: how children with autism understand drawings
    Melissa L Allen
    Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, Scotland, UK
    J Autism Dev Disord 39:539-43. 2009
  2. ncbi Associative learning of pictures and words by low-functioning children with autism
    Melissa Allen Preissler
    Department of Psychology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
    Autism 12:231-48. 2008
  3. ncbi Evidence for syntactic alignment in children with autism
    Melissa L Allen
    Department of Psychology, Lancaster University, UK
    Dev Sci 14:540-8. 2011
  4. ncbi Implicit and explicit understanding of ambiguous figures by adolescents with autism spectrum disorder
    Melissa L Allen
    Lancaster University, Psychology Department, Fylde College, Lancaster, UK
    Autism 15:457-72. 2011
  5. ncbi Two-year-olds use artist intention to understand drawings
    Melissa Allen Preissler
    University of Edinburgh, PPLS, 7 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, United Kingdom
    Cognition 106:512-8. 2008
  6. ncbi Semantic fields in low-functioning autism
    Katharina Boser
    Department of Neurology, Division of Cognitive Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287 7222, USA
    J Autism Dev Disord 32:563-82. 2002
  7. ncbi The role of inferences about referential intent in word learning: evidence from autism
    Melissa Allen Preissler
    Department of Psychology, New York University, 6 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003, USA
    Cognition 97:B13-23. 2005
  8. ncbi Two-year-olds appreciate the dual nature of pictures
    Melissa Allen Preissler
    Yale University, USA
    Psychol Sci 18:1-2. 2007

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Publications8

  1. ncbi Brief report: decoding representations: how children with autism understand drawings
    Melissa L Allen
    Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, Scotland, UK
    J Autism Dev Disord 39:539-43. 2009
    ..g. lollipop and balloon) after a delay, based upon what they intended them to be. Results are discussed in terms of intention and understanding of visual representation in autism...
  2. ncbi Associative learning of pictures and words by low-functioning children with autism
    Melissa Allen Preissler
    Department of Psychology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
    Autism 12:231-48. 2008
    ....
  3. ncbi Evidence for syntactic alignment in children with autism
    Melissa L Allen
    Department of Psychology, Lancaster University, UK
    Dev Sci 14:540-8. 2011
    ....
  4. ncbi Implicit and explicit understanding of ambiguous figures by adolescents with autism spectrum disorder
    Melissa L Allen
    Lancaster University, Psychology Department, Fylde College, Lancaster, UK
    Autism 15:457-72. 2011
    ..This research has implications for how individuals with ASD understand multiple representations and supports the Enhanced Perceptual Functioning theory...
  5. ncbi Two-year-olds use artist intention to understand drawings
    Melissa Allen Preissler
    University of Edinburgh, PPLS, 7 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, United Kingdom
    Cognition 106:512-8. 2008
    ..These findings are consistent with the view that children are naturally disposed to reason about artifacts, including artwork, in terms of inferred intention...
  6. ncbi Semantic fields in low-functioning autism
    Katharina Boser
    Department of Neurology, Division of Cognitive Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287 7222, USA
    J Autism Dev Disord 32:563-82. 2002
    ..This is taken as evidence that his semantic fields are broader than otherwise apparent, and that he was capable of expanding his semantic representations independently of specific training...
  7. ncbi The role of inferences about referential intent in word learning: evidence from autism
    Melissa Allen Preissler
    Department of Psychology, New York University, 6 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003, USA
    Cognition 97:B13-23. 2005
    ..Therefore, constraints that lead the child to map a novel label to a previously unnamed object under these circumstances are not solely based on assessments of speakers' intentions...
  8. ncbi Two-year-olds appreciate the dual nature of pictures
    Melissa Allen Preissler
    Yale University, USA
    Psychol Sci 18:1-2. 2007