Episodic Memory and Remembering in Adults with Asperger Syndrome

Overview

Journal J Autism Dev Disord

Publisher Springer

Date 2000 Oct 20

PMID 11039856

Citations 70

Authors

D M Bowler

J M Gardiner

S J Grice

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Abstract

A group of adults with Asperger syndrome and an IQ-matched control group were compared in remember versus know recognition memory. Word frequency was also manipulated. Both groups showed superior recognition for low-frequency compared with high-frequency words, and in both groups this word frequency effect occurred in remembering, not in knowing. Nor did overall recognition differ between the two groups. However, recognition in the Asperger group was associated with less remembering, and more knowing, than in the control group. Since remembering reflects autonoetic consciousness, which is the hallmark of an episodic memory system, these results show that episodic memory is moderately impaired in individuals with Asperger syndrome even when overall recognition performance is not.

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