TY - JOUR
T1 - When less is more: Poor discrimination but good colour memory in autism
AU - Heaton, Pamela
AU - Ludlow, Amanda
AU - Roberson, Debi
N1 - © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This is the accepted manuscript version of an article which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2007.04.004
PY - 2007/6/5
Y1 - 2007/6/5
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1750946707000451
U2 - 10.1016/j.rasd.2007.04.004
DO - 10.1016/j.rasd.2007.04.004
M3 - Article
VL - 2
SP - 147
EP - 156
JO - Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders
JF - Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders
IS - 1
ER -