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Self-ordered pointing in children with autism: failure to use verbal mediation in the service of working memory?
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This study tested the hypothesis that children with autism are impaired in using verbal encoding and rehearsal strategies in the service of working memory. Participants were 24 high-ability, school-age children with autism and a comparison group matched on verbal and non-verbal IQ, receptive and expressive vocabulary, and visual memory. Working memory was assessed using verbal and non-verbal variants of a non-spatial, self-ordered pointing test [Petrides, M., & Milner, B. (1982). Deficits on subject-ordered tasks after frontal- and temporal-lobe lesions in man. Neuropsychologia, 20, 249-262] in which children had to point to a new stimulus in a set upon each presentation without repeating a previous choice. In the verbal condition, the stimuli were pictures of concrete, nameable objects, whereas in the non-verbal condition, the stimuli were not easily named or verbally encoded. Participants were also administered a verbal span task to assess non-executive verbal rehearsal skills. Although the two groups were equivalent in verbal rehearsal skills, the autism group performed significantly less well in the verbal, but not the non-verbal, self-ordered pointing test. These findings suggested that children with autism are deficient in the use of verbal mediation strategies to maintain and monitor goal-related information in working memory. The findings are discussed in terms of possible autistic impairments in episodic memory as well as working memory.
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“Our finding that the differences between subgroups were similar in both ASD and TD samples may appear inconsistent with prior studies that show an effect of ASD on the relationship between cognitive measures and task performance12,27,37,38.”
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“This finding is consistent with several studies of individuals with autism that have shown a reduced utilization of organizational strategies, and in some cases even a failure to use explicitly available structures that typically developing individuals use to enhance memory performance (Ameli, Courchesne, Lincoln, Kau…”
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- Authors
- JOSEPH, R., STEELE, S., MEYER, E., & TAGERFLUSBERG, H.
- Affiliations
- Boston University (US)
- Corresponding author
- JOSEPH, R
- ORCID
- JOSEPH, R
- Venue
- Neuropsychologia
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2005
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 1400-1411
- ISSN
- 0028-3932 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1983752817
- Cited by
- 106
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 1.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Neuropsychologia (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (7r03hd037898-03)
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (P01DC03610, P01DC003610)
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R03 HD 37898, R03 HD037898-02, R03 HD037898-03, R03 HD037898-01)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Developmental and Educational Neuropsychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Keywords
- autism spectrum disorder, working memory, verbal mediation, verbal encoding, verbal rehearsal, verbal span, episodic memory, high ability children
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Analysis of Variance, Autistic Disorder, Child, Humans, Language Tests, Memory, Short-Term, Problem Solving, Reference Values, Verbal Behavior, Verbal Learning
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