Do High-Functioning People with Autism Spectrum Disorder Spontaneously Use Event Knowledge to Selectively Attend to and Remember Context-Relevant Aspects in Scenes?

Autor/inn/en	Loth, Eva; Gomez, Juan Carlos; Happe, Francesca
Titel	Do High-Functioning People with Autism Spectrum Disorder Spontaneously Use Event Knowledge to Selectively Attend to and Remember Context-Relevant Aspects in Scenes?
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41 (2011) 7, S.945-961 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-010-1124-6
Schlagwörter	Autism; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Memory; Attention; Recall (Psychology); Eye Movements; Children; Adults + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Gedächtnis; Aufmerksamkeit; Abberufung; Augenbewegung; Child; Kind; Kinder
Abstract	This study combined an event schema approach with top-down processing perspectives to investigate whether high-functioning children and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) spontaneously attend to and remember context-relevant aspects of scenes. Participants read one story of story-pairs (e.g., burglary or tea party). They then inspected a scene (living room) of which some objects were relevant in that context, irrelevant (related to the non-emphasized event) or neutral (scene-schema related). During immediate and delayed recall, only the (TD) groups selectively recalled context-relevant objects, and significantly more context-relevant objects than the ASD groups. Gaze-tracking suggests that one factor in these memory differences may be diminished top-down effects of event schemas on initial attention (first ten fixations) to relevant items in ASD. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10