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ERIC Number: EJ1154496
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Oct
Pages: 11
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ISSN: ISSN-0162-3257
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An Eye-Movement Study of Relational Memory in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Ring, Melanie; Bowler, Dermot M.; Gaigg, Sebastian B.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, v47 n10 p2981-2991 Oct 2017
Persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) demonstrate good memory for single items but difficulties remembering contextual information related to these items. Recently, we found compromised explicit but intact implicit retrieval of object-location information in ASD (Ring et al. "Autism Res" 8(5):609-619, 2015). Eye-movement data collected from a sub-sample of the participants are the focus of the current paper. At encoding, trial-by-trial viewing durations predicted subsequent retrieval success only in typically developing (TD) participants. During retrieval, TD compared to ASD participants looked significantly longer at previously studied object-locations compared to alternative locations. These findings extend similar observations recently reported by Cooper et al. ("Cognition" 159:127-138, 2017a) and demonstrate that eye-movement data can shed important light on the source and nature of relational memory difficulties in ASD.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule
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