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Neuropsychologic functioning in children with autism: further evidence for disordered complex information-processing.

Diane L Williams1, Gerald Goldstein, Nancy J Minshew

  • 1University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA.

Child Neuropsychology : a Journal on Normal and Abnormal Development in Childhood and Adolescence
|August 17, 2006
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This study reveals that children with autism exhibit selective information-processing impairments, particularly in sensory-perceptual and complex cognitive tasks. These findings support a complex information-processing model for autism in children.

Area of Science:

  • Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental Neuroscience

Background:

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental condition.
  • Previous research suggested information-processing differences in adults with autism.
  • Understanding developmental trajectories of cognitive function in autism is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate information-processing abilities in high-functioning children with autism.
  • To compare cognitive profiles of children with autism to age- and IQ-matched controls.
  • To examine the applicability of a complex information-processing model to autism in childhood.

Main Methods:

  • Assessed a wide range of abilities in 56 high-functioning children with autism and 56 controls.

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  • Utilized stepwise discriminant analyses to identify group differences.
  • Compared findings to previously published adult data.

    • Main Results:

    • Good group discrimination was found for sensory-perceptual, motor, complex language, and complex memory domains.
    • Lower agreement for the reasoning domain was observed compared to adults.
    • No group discrimination occurred for attention, simple language, simple memory, and visuospatial domains.
    • Children with autism showed more prominent sensory-perceptual symptoms and less pronounced reasoning deficits than adults.

    Conclusions:

    • Findings support a complex information-processing model for autism in children.
    • Autism in children presents a pattern of selective impairments on tasks requiring high information integration.
    • Developmental maturation may influence the presentation of cognitive deficits in autism.