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. 2007 Mar;37(3):445-54.
doi: 10.1007/s10803-006-0180-4.

Deficits in free recall persist in Asperger's syndrome despite training in the use of list-appropriate learning strategies

Brenda J Smith  1 , John M Gardiner, Dermot M Bowler
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Deficits in free recall persist in Asperger's syndrome despite training in the use of list-appropriate learning strategies

Brenda J Smith et al. J Autism Dev Disord. 2007 Mar.

Abstract

Free recall in adults with Asperger's Syndrome (AS) was compared with that in matched controls in an experiment including semantically similar, phonologically similar and unrelated word lists. Without supportive instructions, adults with AS were significantly impaired in their recall of phonologically and semantically related lists, but not unrelated lists. Even when trained to make use at study of the relations among the words, the adults with AS recalled fewer words than the control group. Participants rehearsed the study lists out loud and the rehearsal data was analysed. Despite a very slight trend for adults with AS to engage in less elaborative rehearsal and more rote rehearsal, their rehearsal did not differ significantly from that of controls.

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