Directed forgetting in high-functioning adults with autism spectrum disorders
Directed forgetting in high-functioning adults with autism spectrum disorders
Rehearsal strategies of adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and demographically matched typically developed (TD) adults were strategically manipulated by cueing participants to either learn, or forget each list word prior to a recognition task. Participants were also asked to distinguish between autonoetic and noetic states of awareness using the Remember/Know paradigm. The ASD group recognised a similar number of to-be-forgotten words as the TD group, but significantly fewer to-be-learned words. This deficit was only evident in Remember responses that reflect autonoetic awareness, or episodic memory, and not Know responses. These findings support the elaborative encoding deficit hypothesis and provide a link between the previously established mild episodic memory impairments in adults with high functioning autism and the encoding strategies employed.
autism, autonoetic awareness, elaborative rehearsal, episodic memory
2514-2524
Meyer, Brenda J.
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Gardiner, John M.
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Bowler, Dermot M.
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October 2014
Meyer, Brenda J.
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Gardiner, John M.
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Bowler, Dermot M.
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Meyer, Brenda J., Gardiner, John M. and Bowler, Dermot M.
(2014)
Directed forgetting in high-functioning adults with autism spectrum disorders.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 44 (10), .
(doi:10.1007/s10803-014-2121-y).
(PMID:24722763)
Abstract
Rehearsal strategies of adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and demographically matched typically developed (TD) adults were strategically manipulated by cueing participants to either learn, or forget each list word prior to a recognition task. Participants were also asked to distinguish between autonoetic and noetic states of awareness using the Remember/Know paradigm. The ASD group recognised a similar number of to-be-forgotten words as the TD group, but significantly fewer to-be-learned words. This deficit was only evident in Remember responses that reflect autonoetic awareness, or episodic memory, and not Know responses. These findings support the elaborative encoding deficit hypothesis and provide a link between the previously established mild episodic memory impairments in adults with high functioning autism and the encoding strategies employed.
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Accepted/In Press date: 31 March 2014
e-pub ahead of print date: 11 April 2014
Published date: October 2014
Keywords:
autism, autonoetic awareness, elaborative rehearsal, episodic memory
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Psychology
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Local EPrints ID: 391031
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/391031
ISSN: 0162-3257
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Brenda J. Meyer
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John M. Gardiner
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Dermot M. Bowler
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