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Working Memory in Children with Autism and with Moderate Learning Difficulties

Russell, James, Jarrold, Christopher, Henry, Lucy·1996·Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
DOI 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1996.tb01459.x
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We asked whether children with autism are specifically impaired on tests of working memory. Experiment 1 showed that children with autism were at least as likely as normal children to employ articulatory rehearsal (criterion: evincing the “word length effect”) and that they had superior spans to that of children with moderate learning difficulties. In Experiment 2, participants were given “capacity tasks” in order to examine group differences in the capacity of the central executive of working memory. The performance of the children with autism was inferior to that of the normally developing group and similar to that of the children with moderate learning difficulties.

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  • Performance on simple verbal working memory tasks, such as word recall and digit recall, has been shown to be unimpaired in individuals with ASD.

    “In contrast, performance on simple verbal working memory tasks, such as word recall (e.g., Russell, Jarrold, & Henry, 1996) and digit recall (Bennetto, Pennington, & Rogers, 1996;Faja & Dawson, 2014;Williams et al., 2005;Williams et al., 2006), has been shown to be unimpaired.”

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Authors
Russell, J., Jarrold, C., & Henry, L.
Affiliations
  • University of Cambridge (GB)
  • University of Reading (GB)
Corresponding author
Russell, James
ORCID
Venue
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Publisher
Wiley
Published
1996-09
Volume
37
Issue
6
Pages
673-686
ISSN
  • 0021-9630 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-7610
DOI
10.1111/j.1469-7610.1996.tb01459.x
OpenAlex
W2006424428
Cited by
250
References
2
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 14 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 15 · 2013: 15 · 2012: 16
FWCI
2.53
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor, 3749 d)
Locations
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Explore Bristol Research (publishedVersion)
  • Bristol Research (University of Bristol) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Wellcome Trust
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
working memory, autism spectrum disorder, moderate learning difficulties, articulatory rehearsal, word length effect, central executive, children
MeSH terms
Autistic Disorder, Child, Humans, Learning Disabilities, Memory Disorders, Mental Recall, Verbal Behavior

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