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Deficits in free recall persist in Asperger’s Syndrome despite training in the use of list-appropriate learning strategies

Deficits in free recall persist in Asperger’s Syndrome despite training in the use of list-appropriate learning strategies
Deficits in free recall persist in Asperger’s Syndrome despite training in the use of list-appropriate learning strategies
Free recall in adults with Asperger’s Syndrome (AS) was compared with that in matched controls in an experiment including semantically similar, phonologically similar and unrelated word lists. Without supportive instructions, adults with AS were significantly impaired in their recall of phonologically and semantically related lists, but not unrelated lists. Even when trained to make use at study of the relations among the words, the adults with AS recalled fewer words than the control group. Participants rehearsed the study lists out loud and the rehearsal data was analysed. Despite a very slight trend for adults with AS to engage in less elaborative rehearsal and more rote rehearsal, their rehearsal did not differ significantly from that of controls.
asperger’s syndrome, memory, free recall, task support, relational deficit, autism
0162-3257
445-454
Smith, Brenda J.
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Gardiner, John M.
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Bowler, Dermot
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Smith, Brenda J.
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Gardiner, John M.
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Bowler, Dermot
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Smith, Brenda J., Gardiner, John M. and Bowler, Dermot (2007) Deficits in free recall persist in Asperger’s Syndrome despite training in the use of list-appropriate learning strategies. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37 (3), 445-454. (doi:10.1007/s10803-006-0180-4). (PMID:16874560)

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Abstract

Free recall in adults with Asperger’s Syndrome (AS) was compared with that in matched controls in an experiment including semantically similar, phonologically similar and unrelated word lists. Without supportive instructions, adults with AS were significantly impaired in their recall of phonologically and semantically related lists, but not unrelated lists. Even when trained to make use at study of the relations among the words, the adults with AS recalled fewer words than the control group. Participants rehearsed the study lists out loud and the rehearsal data was analysed. Despite a very slight trend for adults with AS to engage in less elaborative rehearsal and more rote rehearsal, their rehearsal did not differ significantly from that of controls.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 28 July 2006
Published date: March 2007
Keywords: asperger’s syndrome, memory, free recall, task support, relational deficit, autism
Organisations: Psychology

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Local EPrints ID: 391016
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/391016
ISSN: 0162-3257
PURE UUID: 8fccb168-4d48-4df8-ae85-ace69b8eedcc

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Author: Brenda J. Smith
Author: John M. Gardiner
Author: Dermot Bowler

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