TY - JOUR
T1 - Impaired memory for faces and social scenes in autism
T2 - Clinical implications of memory dysfunction
AU - Williams, Diane L.
AU - Goldstein, Gerald
AU - Minshew, Nancy J.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are indebted to the participants and their families who gave generously of their time and to the technicians who administered and scored the tests. This research was supported by NINDS (NS33355) and NICHD (HD35469) grants to Nancy J. Minshew and by the Medical Research Service, Department of Veterans Affairs. This study was supported by an NICHD Collaborative Program of Excellence in Autism (CPEA).
PY - 2005/1
Y1 - 2005/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.acn.2002.08.001
DO - 10.1016/j.acn.2002.08.001
M3 - Article
C2 - 15620811
AN - SCOPUS:11144327628
SN - 0887-6177
VL - 20
SP - 1
EP - 15
JO - Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology
JF - Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology
IS - 1
ER -