Language, social, and executive functions in high functioning Autism: a continuum of performance

Landa, Rebecca J.; Goldberg, Melissa C.

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Language, social, and executive functions in high functioning Autism: a continuum of performance

Landa, Rebecca J., Goldberg, Melissa C.·2005·Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

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This study examined language and executive functions (EF) in high-functioning school-aged individuals with autism and individually matched controls. Relationships between executive, language, and social functioning were also examined. Participants with autism exhibited difficulty on measures of expressive grammar, figurative language, planning, and spatial working memory. A mixed profile of impaired and enhanced abilities was noted in set-shifting. While controls showed the typical increase in errors when shifting sets from an intra-dimensional to an extra-dimensional stimulus, this pattern was not noted in participants with autism. Relationships between EF, language, and social performance were weak to non-existent. Implications for theories of core deficit in autism and dissociable nature of the language and executive impairments in autism are discussed.

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Landa and colleagues found that children with high functioning autism had ID-shift problems yet performed better than typically developing children on ED-shifts.
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Linking performance on current cognitive flexibility measures to actual behavior has been difficult.
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Authors: Landa, R. J., & Goldberg, M. C.
Affiliations: Kennedy Krieger Institute (US)
Johns Hopkins University (US)
Corresponding author: Landa, Rebecca J.
ORCID: Landa, Rebecca J.
Venue: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2005-10
Volume: 35
Issue: 5
Pages: 557-573
ISSN: 0162-3257 (ISSN-L)
1573-3432
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-005-0001-1
OpenAlex: W1974483393
Cited by: 296
References: 81
Citations by year: 2026: 5 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 19 · 2018: 19 · 2017: 22 · 2016: 18 · 2015: 21 · 2014: 20 · 2013: 21 · 2012: 23
FWCI: 3.48
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders: National Institute of Mental Health (K01MH001824, K01 MH 01824)
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P01HD035468, P01 HD35468)
Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Developmental and Educational Neuropsychology
Keywords: high-functioning autism, executive function, language skills, social functioning, figurative language, planning, spatial working memory, set-shifting, school-aged children
MeSH terms: Adolescent, Autistic Disorder, Child, Cognition Disorders, Female, Humans, Language Disorders, Male, Memory, Neuropsychological Tests, Severity of Illness Index, Social Behavior, Space Perception

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