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Source memory in children with autism spectrum disorders.

Angela Garcia O'Shea1, Deborah A Fein, Antonius H N Cillessen

  • 1Department of Neurosurgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA. angela.oshea@yale.edu

Developmental Neuropsychology
|April 22, 2005
PubMed
Summary

Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) struggle with source memory, recalling facts but not their context. This difficulty is linked to social information, not a general memory deficit.

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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Memory processes in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are not fully understood.
  • While some studies show exceptional factual memory in ASD, context and meaning attachment appear impaired.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the specific role of source memory in children with ASD.
  • To determine if memory deficits in ASD are generalized or context-specific.

Main Methods:

  • Comparison of children with ASD to typically developing children matched for chronological and mental age.
  • Assessment of fact recognition and source memory performance.

Main Results:

  • Children with ASD performed similarly to controls on fact recognition.

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  • Children with ASD demonstrated significantly lower performance on a source memory task.
  • Source memory deficits in ASD were related to the social nature of the information, not a generalized contextual deficit.

    • Conclusions:

    • Autism spectrum disorder is associated with specific difficulties in source memory.
    • The challenges in source memory for children with ASD are not due to a global deficit in attaching context.
    • Deficits are specifically influenced by the social content of the information to be remembered.