The profile of memory function in children with autism.
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A clinical memory test was administered to 38 high-functioning children with autism and 38 individually matched normal controls, 8-16 years of age. The resulting profile of memory abilities in the children with autism was characterized by relatively poor memory for complex visual and verbal information and spatial working memory with relatively intact associative learning ability, verbal working memory, and recognition memory. A stepwise discriminant function analysis of the subtests found that the Finger Windows subtest, a measure of spatial working memory, discriminated most accurately between the autism and normal control groups. A principal components analysis indicated that the factor structure of the subtests differed substantially between the children with autism and controls, suggesting differing organizations of memory ability.
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- Authors
- Williams, D. L., Goldstein, G., & Minshew, N. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- Venue
- Neuropsychology
- Published
- 2006-01
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 21-29
- ISSN
- 0894-4105 (ISSN-L)
- 1931-1559
- PMC
- PMC1847594
- OpenAlex
- W2143256436
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- FWCI
- 5.18
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- journal article
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- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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- Neuropsychology (publishedVersion)
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- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01NS033355)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P01HD035469, HD35469, U19HD035469)
- 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, memory function, high-functioning children, spatial working memory, verbal working memory, recognition memory, associative learning, visual memory, memory profile
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Aptitude, Attention, Autistic Disorder, Child, Female, Humans, Male, Memory Disorders, Memory, Short-Term, Neuropsychological Tests, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Psychometrics, Reading, Mental Recall, Reference Values, Retention, Psychology, Speech Perception, Wechsler Scales, Reproducibility of Results, Principal Component Analysis
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