Phonological and Visuospatial Working Memory in Autism Spectrum Disorders
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We evaluated phonological and visuospatial working memory (WM) in autism spectrum disorders. Autistic children and typically developing children were compared. We used WM tasks that measured phonological and visuospatial WM up to the capacity limit of each children. Overall measures of WM did not show differences between autistic children and control children. However, when the recall of children was examined in detail, autistic children showed reduced phonological WM compared with control children. Moreover, phonological and visuospatial WM did not increase with the age of autistic children while a development of phonological and visuospatial WM with age was found in control children. The pattern of results is discussed in terms of previous studies about WM and autism.
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- Authors
- Macizo, P., Soriano, M. F., & Paredes, N.
- Affiliations
- Universidad de Granada (ES)
- Hospital San Agustín (ES)
- Corresponding author
- Macizo, P.
- Venue
- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
- Published
- 2016-06-17
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 2956-2967
- ISSN
- 0162-3257 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-3432
- OpenAlex
- W2426070684
- Cited by
- 35
- References
- 75
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 3
- FWCI
- 2.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (PSI2012–32287)
- Junta de Andalucía (PI-0410-2014)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Developmental and Educational Neuropsychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Keywords
- autism spectrum disorder, phonological working memory, visuospatial working memory, working memory development, children, memory retrieval, age differences, typically developing children
- MeSH terms
- Autism Spectrum Disorder, Adolescent, Child, Child, Preschool, Female, Humans, Male, Memory, Short-Term, Neuropsychological Tests, Mental Recall, Case-Control Studies
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