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ARCHIVES OF CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
Volume 20, Issue 1, Pages 1-15Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.acn.2002.08.001
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autism; memory; information processing
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- NICHD NIH HHS [HD35469] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [NS33355] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE [R55NS033355, R01NS033355] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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A clinical memory test, the Wechsler Memory Scale-III (WMS-III), was used to study the auditory and visual memory of 29 high-functioning adults with autism and 34 group-matched normal controls. The individuals with autism performed as well as the controls on immediate and delayed memory for word pairs and stories and on a verbal working memory task. The autism group was impaired on immediate and delayed recall of faces and of family scenes and had impaired spatial working memory. The integrity of verbal working memory and impaired spatial working memory is consistent with the findings of other studies and may reflect the greater computational demands of the spatial task. Most importantly, the deficits in memory for faces and common social scenes, complex visual/spatial stimuli, demonstrate the contribution of memory dysfunction in autism to deficits in real life function. (C) 2004 National Academy of Neuropsychology. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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