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Gras-Vincendon, Agnes; Mottron, Laurent; Salame, Pierre; Bursztejn, Claude; Danion, Jean-Marie – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2007
Episodic memory, i.e. memory for specific episodes situated in space and time, seems impaired in individuals with autism. According to weak central coherence theory, individuals with autism have general difficulty connecting contextual and item information which then impairs their capacity to memorize information in context. This study…
Descriptors: Memory, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Autism, Visual Stimuli
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Gagnon, Louise; Mottron, Laurent; Bherer, Louis; Joanette, Yves – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2004
This study examined the hypothesis of superior quantification abilities of persons with high functioning autism (HFA). Fourteen HFA individuals (mean age: 15 years) individually matched with 14 typically developing (TD) participants (gender, chronological age, full-scale IQ) were asked to quantify as accurately and quickly as possible…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Autism, Visual Stimuli, Computation