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17478577

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-5-4
pubmed:abstractText
This article tests the hypothesis that individuals with autism poorly encode verbal information to the semantic level of processing, instead paying greater attention to phonological attributes. Participants undertook a novel explicit verbal recall task. Twenty children with autism were compared with 20 matched typically developing children. On each trial, 20 words were presented individually on a computer screen. Half of the items were related through having either a common semantic theme, or a common phonological feature. Following a filler task, the participants were presented with a cue and asked to recall items consistent with the cue. No differences between the autism and comparison groups were found in either the semantic or the phonological condition. A follow-up comparison revealed that the participants with autism showed comparable levels of recall to an additional group of children matched in chronological age. The findings do not support the idea of a developmental delay in semantic encoding in children with autism.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1362-3613
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
11
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
241-54
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Evidence against poor semantic encoding in individuals with autism.
pubmed:affiliation
University of Western Australia, Australia. andrew.whitehouse@psy.ox.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article