Episodic memory in adults with autistic spectrum disorders: Recall for self- versus other-experienced events

Hare, Dougal Julian; Mellor, Christine; Azmi, Sabiha

doi:10.1016/j.ridd.2006.03.003

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“…On the recall, recognition, and source monitoring tests, memory performance was both qualitatively and quantitatively similar in the ASD and TD groups; individuals with ASD showed enactment effects of a closely similar magnitude to those shown by typically developing individuals. This is in keeping with many previous studies that have reported finding typical enactment effects in individuals with ASD (e.g., Hare, Mellor, & Azmi, 2007;Lind & Bowler, 2009b;Maras, Memon, keeping with many studies in the broader action monitoring literature (e.g., Blakemore et al, 2006;David et al, 2008). Indeed, with respect to the recognition and source memory tasks, our results replicate those of Zalla et al (2010); in both our study and in Zalla et al's study, typical enactment effects for recognition and source memory were observed among individuals with ASD.…”

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Online Action Monitoring and Memory for Self-Performed Actions in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Grainger

Williams

Lind

2013

J Autism Dev Disord

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This study explored whether individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience difficulties with action monitoring. Two experimental tasks examined whether adults with ASD are able to monitor their own actions online, and whether they also show a typical enactment effects in memory (enhanced memory for actions they have performed compared to actions they have observed being performed). Individuals with ASD and comparison participants showed a similar pattern of performance on both tasks. In a task which required individuals to distinguish person-caused from computer-caused changes in phenomenology both groups found it easier to monitor their own actions compared to those of an experimenter. Both groups also showed typical enactment effects. Despite recent suggestions to the contrary, these results support suggestions that action monitoring is unimpaired in ASD

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Online Action Monitoring and Memory for Self-Performed Actions in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Grainger

Williams

Lind

2013

J Autism Dev Disord

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“…Consistent with the task support account, Zalla et al (2010) reported that highfunctioning individuals with ASD did not show the enactment effect for self-performed actions on tests of free recall, however they did show the effect on a recognition test, whereby both ASD and comparison groups had similarly higher correct recognition for enacted than observed items, with no difference between groups. Similarly, Hare et al (2007) reported that low-functioning individuals with ASD did not show superior free recall for self-over otherexperienced events, but that they did show enhanced recall for self-experienced events when recall was cued. Lind and Bowler (2009) also observed an enactment effect in the ASD group when they tested participants using a recognition test.…”

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“…Whilst self-concept inevitably plays a role in enhancing encoding, it has also been suggested that a self-enactment effect results from the additional motoric component of self-performed actions leading to more salient memory traces (Engelkamp & Zimmer, 1985, 1989. Given the motor difficulties (e.g., Ming, Brimacombe & Wagner, 2007) coupled with diminished self-awareness in ASD (see Lind & Bowler, 2010), it may come as little surprise that a number of researchers have reported a diminished or absent self-enactment effect in ASD (e.g., Dunphy-Leli & Wellman, 2012;Farrant, Blades & Boucher, 1998;Hare, Mellor & Azmi, 2007;Millward et al, 2000;Russell & Jarrold, 1999;Wojcik, Allen, Brown & Souchay, 2011). Russell and Jarrold (1999), for example, asked children with ASD, children with moderate learning difficulties (to act as IQ matches for the ASD group) and typically developing children to remember whether they or the experimenter had placed a picture card on a grid, either on their own behalf or on behalf of a doll partner.…”

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“…RUNNING HEAD: Experienced eyewitness events in ASD 7 Several other researchers have also reported an intact enactment effect for selfperformed actions in ASD (e.g., Hare et al, 2007;Lind & Bowler, 2009;Summers & Craik, 1994;Zalla, Daprati, Sav, Chaste, Nico & Leboyer, 2010), which is problematic for an action monitoring deficit account. It is possible that the reported difficulties in utilising the role of the self in facilitating memory may be dependent on the test procedure used.…”

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Recall of a live and personally experienced eyewitness event by adults with autism spectrum disorder

Maras

Memon

Lambrechts

et al. 2012

J Autism Dev Disord

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link: ABSTRACTThe aim of the present study was to a) extend previous eyewitness research in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) using a live and personally experienced event; b) examine whether witnesses with ASD demonstrate a facilitative effect in memory for self-over otherperformed actions; c) explore source monitoring abilities by witnesses with ASD in discriminating who performed which actions within the event. Eighteen high-functioning adults with ASD and 18 age-and IQ-matched typical counterparts participated in a live first aid scenario in which they and the experimenter each performed a number of actions.Participants were subsequently interviewed for their memory of the event using a standard interview procedure with free recall followed by questioning. The ASD group recalled just as many correct details as the comparison group from the event overall, however they made more errors. This was the case across both free recall and questioning phases. Both groups showed a self-enactment effect across both interview phases, recalling more actions that they had performed themselves than actions that the experimenter had performed. However, the ASD group were more likely than their typical comparisons to confuse the source of self- , and some report they make more errors or are less accurate (Maras & Bowler, 2011, but see Bruck et al., 2007Maras & Bowler, 2010, McCrory et al., 2007North et al., 2008).Two studies to date have explored eyewitness testimony by children with ASD using a live event, although the event in these was passively observed rather than enacted. McCrory et al. (2007) used a live classroom event and reported that whilst children with ASD freely recalled around a third less information than typically developing children did, they were no less accurate with regards to the proportion of errors or incorrect details that they reported. Bruck et al. (2007) also reported that ASD children reported fewer correct details than comparison children in response to both free recall and specific questions about a previously witnessed magic show. Of the studies with adults, none to date have used a live eyewitness event, or an event in which the witness has actively participated. This is pertinent given that it is now well established that individuals with ASD experience difficulties in reflecting on the self (e.g., Crane et al., 2009, and see Lind, 2010), which extend to impairments in episodic memory (e.g., Crane & Goddard, 2008;Klein et al., 1999). Indeed, a number of studies have demonstrated that individuals with ASD experience particular difficulties recalling specific and personally experienced autobiographical events (e.g., Bruck et al., 2007;Goddard, Howlin, Dritschel & Patel, 2007). This impairment is in the absence of a personal semantic RUNNING HEAD: Experienced eyewitness events in ASD 5 memory deficit (Crane & Goddard, 2008), indicating that it is a deficit ...

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“…Deficits in episodic memory have long been reported in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD: e.g., Hare, Mellor, & Azmi, 2007;Klein, Chan & Loftus, 1999;Millward, Powell, Messer & Jordan, 2000). These deficits are often characterized by diminished free recall performance, that is, remembering in the absence of any retrieval support (e.g., Bowler, Mathews & Gardiner, 1997;McCrory, Henry, & Happe, 2007).…”

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Sketching to Remember: Episodic Free Recall Task Support for Child Witnesses and Victims with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Mattison

Dando

Ormerod

2014

J Autism Dev Disord

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Episodic memory in adults with autistic spectrum disorders: Recall for self- versus other-experienced events

Cited by 59 publications

References 24 publications

Online Action Monitoring and Memory for Self-Performed Actions in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Online Action Monitoring and Memory for Self-Performed Actions in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Recall of a live and personally experienced eyewitness event by adults with autism spectrum disorder

Sketching to Remember: Episodic Free Recall Task Support for Child Witnesses and Victims with Autism Spectrum Disorder

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