Brief Report: Self-Defining and Everyday Autobiographical Memories in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Autor/inn/en	Crane, Laura; Goddard, Lorna; Pring, Linda
Titel	Brief Report: Self-Defining and Everyday Autobiographical Memories in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 40 (2010) 3, S.383-391 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-009-0875-4
Schlagwörter	Autism; Memory; Adults; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Autobiographies; Comparative Analysis; Recall (Psychology); Personal Narratives + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Gedächtnis; Autobiography; Autobiografie; Autobiographie; Abberufung; Erlebniserzählung
Abstract	Autobiographical memory impairments in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have been attributed to a failure in using the self as an effective memory organisational system. To explore this hypothesis, we compared self-defining and everyday memories in adults with and without ASD. Results demonstrated that both groups were able to distinguish between self-defining and everyday memories, although the ASD group generated fewer specific memories overall. Despite qualitative similarities between the narratives of the two groups, the adults with ASD extracted less meaning from their narratives. Difficulties in eliciting meaning from memories suggests a failure in using past experiences to update the self. We therefore propose that the self-memory relationship might be static, rather than dynamic, in ASD. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10