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Inner speech impairments in autism
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Background: Three experiments investigated the role of inner speech deficit in cognitive performances of children with autism. Methods: Experiment 1 compared children with autism with ability‐matched controls on a verbal recall task presenting pictures and words. Experiment 2 used pictures for which the typical names were either single syllable or multisyllable. Two encoding conditions manipulated the use of verbal encoding. Experiment 3 employed a task‐switching paradigm for which performance has been shown to be contingent upon inner speech. Results: In Experiment 1, children with autism demonstrated a lower picture‐superiority effect compared to controls. In Experiment 2, the children with autism showed a lower word‐length effect when pictures were presented alone, but a more substantial word‐length effect in a condition requiring overt labelling. In Experiment 3, articulatory suppression affected the task‐switching performance of the control participants only. Conclusions: Individuals with autism have limitations in their use of inner speech.
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“As a second example, atypical ToM has for a long time been considered a core feature of autism spectrum disorder (Baron-Cohen et al., 1985), but differences in inner speech in autism have only been studied relatively recently (Whitehouse et al., 2006; Wallace et al., 2009; Holland and Low, 2010).”
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“To our knowledge, only four studies have investigated task-switching in people with autism and none of them reported performance deficits [40–43].”
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- Authors
- Whitehouse, A. J. O., Maybery, M. T., & Durkin, K.
- Affiliations
- The University of Western Australia (AU)
- University of Strathclyde (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Whitehouse, Andrew J.O.
- Venue
- Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2006-04-26
- Volume
- 47
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 857-865
- ISSN
- 0021-9630 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-7610
- OpenAlex
- W1652226287
- Cited by
- 139
- References
- 32
- Citations by year
- 2025: 6 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 14
- FWCI
- 4.86
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UWA Profiles and Research Repository (UWA) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Australian Research Council
- 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 › Social Psychology › Social Representations and Identity
- Keywords
- inner speech, autism spectrum disorder, verbal working memory, picture superiority effect, word length effect, verbal encoding, task switching, articulatory suppression, children with autism
- MeSH terms
- Attention, Autistic Disorder, Child, Female, Humans, Inhibition, Psychological, Intelligence Tests, Internal-External Control, Language Development Disorders, Male, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Problem Solving, Mental Recall, Reference Values, Semantics, Speech Disorders, Verbal Behavior, Verbal Learning
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