When Less Is More: Poor Discrimination but Good Colour Memory in Autism

Autor/inn/en	Heaton, Pamela; Ludlow, Amanda; Roberson, Debi
Titel	When Less Is More: Poor Discrimination but Good Colour Memory in Autism
Quelle	In: Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2 (2008) 1, S.147-156 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1750-9467
DOI	10.1016/j.rasd.2007.04.004
Schlagwörter	Autism; Memory; Visual Discrimination; Color; Children; Comparative Analysis; Visual Stimuli + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Gedächtnis; Colour; Farbbezeichnung; Farbe; Child; Kind; Kinder
Abstract	In two experiments children with autism and two groups of controls matched for either chronological or non-verbal mental age were tested on tasks of colour discrimination and memory. The results from experiment 1 showed significantly poorer colour discrimination in children with autism in comparison to typically developing chronological age matched controls. However, in experiment 2, children with autism, retained unlabelled perceptual colour information to a significantly higher level than either group of controls. The findings suggest that enhanced performance on perceptual tasks relate to a reduced tendency to encode verbal information in memory. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10