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A Virtual Week study of prospective memory function in autism spectrum disorders

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Title
A Virtual Week study of prospective memory function in autism spectrum disorders
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Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, March 2014
DOI 10.1016/j.jecp.2014.01.011
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Julie D. Henry, Gill Terrett, Mareike Altgassen, Sandra Raponi-Saunders, Nicola Ballhausen, Katharina M. Schnitzspahn, Peter G. Rendell

Abstract

Prospective memory (PM) refers to the implementation of delayed intentions, a cognitive ability that plays a critical role in daily life because of its involvement in goal-directed behavior and consequently the development and maintenance of independence. Emerging evidence indicates that PM may be disrupted in autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), potentially contributing to the functional difficulties that characterize this group. However, the degree, nature, and specificity of ASD-related impairment remains poorly understood. In the current study, children between 8 and 12years of age who were diagnosed with ASDs (n=30) were compared with typically developing children (n=30) on a child-appropriate version of the Virtual Week board game. This measure provides an opportunity to investigate the different sorts of PM failures that occur. The ASD group showed significant PM impairment on measures of time-based (but not event-based) prospective remembering. However, only a subtle difference emerged between regular and irregular PM tasks, and group differences were consistent across these tasks. Because regular and irregular tasks differentially load retrospective memory, these data imply that the PM difficulties seen in ASDs may primarily reflect a monitoring deficit and not an encoding and memory storage deficit. PM performance was poorer under conditions of high ongoing task absorption, but the magnitude of this effect did not vary as a function of group. In both groups, time-based (but not event-based) PM difficulties were associated with functional outcomes in daily life, but only an inconsistent association with executive control emerged.

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Country Count As %
France 3 2%
Netherlands 2 1%
Spain 2 1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 143 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 29 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 28 18%
Student > Master 26 17%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 8%
Researcher 11 7%
Other 24 16%
Unknown 22 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 67 44%
Medicine and Dentistry 9 6%
Social Sciences 9 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 5%
Neuroscience 8 5%
Other 17 11%
Unknown 34 22%
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