Proper name hypermnesia in an autistic subject

Brain and Language

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 326-350

  Mottron, Laurent ^a,b   Belleville, Sylvie ^b,c   Stip, Emmanuel ^b,d  

^a Hopital Riviere des Prairies   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

^d CENTRE DE RECHERCHE FERNAND SEGUIN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CASE REPORT; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; RECALL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

EID: 0029890530     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brln.1996.0052     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. American Psychiatric Association. 1987. Diagnosis and statistical manual of mental disorders. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association. 3rd ed., revised.
2. Baudot, J. 1970. Fréquence des mots enfrançais, ordre de fréquence. Unpublished manuscript, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec.
3. Bruce, V., & Young, A. W. 1986. Understanding face recognition. British Journal of Psychology, 17, 305-327.
4. Burke, D. M., MacKay, D. G., Worthley, J. S., & Wade, E. 1991. On the tip of the tongue: What causes word finding failures in young and Older Adults? Journal of Memory and Language, 30, 542-579.
5. Burton, A. M., & Bruce, V. 1992. I recognize your face but I cannot remember your name: A simple explanation? British Journal of Psychology, 83, 45-60.
6. Cohen, G. 1990. Why is it difficult to put names to faces? British Journal of Psychology, 81, 287-297.
7. Cohen, G., & Faulkner, D. 1986. Memory for proper names: Age differences in retrieval. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 4, 187-197.
8. Dobbs, A. R., Friedman, A. F., & Lloyd, J. 1985. Frequency effect in lexical decision: A test of the verification model. Journal of Experimental Psychology, Human Perception and Performance, 11, 81-92.
9. Frith 1989. Autism: Explaining the enigma. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
10. Frith, U., & Happé, F. 1994. Autism: Beyond "theory of mind." Cognition, 50, 115-132.
11. Frith, U., & Morton, J. 1994. Causal Modelling: A structural approach to developmental psychopathology. In Dante Cicchetti & Donald J. Cohen (Eds.), Manual of developmental psychology. Draft chapter. Ch. 13, in press, New York: John Wiley.
12. Frith, U., & Snowling, M. 1983. Reading for meaning and reading for sound in autistic and dyslexic children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 1, 329-342.
13. Flude, B. M., Ellis, A. W., & Kay, J. 1989. Face processing and name retrieval in an anomic aphasic: Names are stored separately from semantic information about familiar people. Brain and Cognition, 11, 60-72.
14. Hanley, J. R., & Cowell, E. S. 1988. The effects of different types of retrieval cues on the recall of names of famous faces. Memory and Cognition, 16, 545-555.
15. Healy, J. M., Aram, D. M., Horwitz, S. J., & Kesler, J. W. 1982. A study of Hyperlexia. Brain and Language, 17, 1-23.
16. Hermelin, B., & Frith, U. 1971. Psychological studies of childhood autism: Can autistic children make sense of what they see and hear? Journal of Special Education, 5(2), 107-117.
17. Hill, L. A. 1978. Savants: Mentally retarded individuals with Special Skills. In N. R. Ellis (Ed.), International Review of Research in Mental Retardation. New York: Academic Press. Vol. 9, pp. 277-298.
18. Hulme, C., Maugan, S., & Brown, G. D. A. 1991. Memory for familiar and unfamiliar words: Evidence for a long term memory contribution to short term memory span. Journal of Memory and Language, 30, 685-701.
19. Jackendoff, R. 1983. Semantics and Cognition. MIT Press.
20. Johnston, R. A., & Bruce, V. 1990. Lost properties? Retrieval differences between name codes and semantic codes for familiar people. Psychological Research, 52, 62-67.
21. Kripke 1982. Naming and necessity. Oxford, Basil Blackwell.
22. Lamb, M. R., Robertson, L. C., & Knight, R. T. 1990. Component mechanisms underlying the processing of hierarchically organized patterns: Inference from patients with unilateral cortical lesions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 16, 471-483.
23. Lucchelli, F., & De Renzi, E. 1992. Proper name anomia. Cortex, 28, 221-230.
24. McWeeny, K. H., Young, A. W., Hay, D. C., & Ellis, A. W. 1987. Putting names to faces. British Journal of Psychology, 78, 143-149.
25. Mottron, L., & Belleville, S. 1993. A study of perceptual analysis in a high level autistic subject with exceptional graphic abilities. Brain and Cognition, 23, 279-309.
26. Mottron, L., & Belleville, S. 1994. L'apport de la neuropsychologie cognitive à l'étude de l'autisme. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 19, 95-102.
27. Mottron, L., & Belleville, S. 1995. Non-constructed perspective production in an autistic savant draughtsman. Psychological Medecine, 25, 639-648.
28. Mottron, L., & Belleville, S. 1994. La mémoire sémantique des autistes. Prisme, 4, 38-51.
29. Mottron, L., Belleville, S., & Stip, E. 1991. Etude des stratégies d'encodage chez un autiste hypermnésique de haut niveau. L'Encéphale, 17, 549.
30. Mottron, L., Robaey, P., Stauder, J. E. A., & Burack, J. A perceptual deficit in high-functioning autism. Submitted for publication.
31. Navon, D. 1977. Forest before trees: The precedence of global features in visual perception. Cognitive Psychology, 9, 353-383.
32. O'Connor, N., & Hermelin, B. 1989. The memory structure of autistic idiot-savant mnemonist. British Journal of Psychology, 80, 97-111.
33. Palmer, S. E. 1977. Hierarchical structure in visual perception. Cognitive Psychology, 9, 441-474.
34. Peretz, I. 1990. Processing of local and global information in unilateral brain damaged patients. Brain, 113, 1185-1205.
35. Rimland, B. 1971. The differentiation of childhood psychosis. Journal of Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia, 1, 161-174.
36. Rimland, B. 1978. Savant capabilities of autistic children and their cognitive implications. In G. Serban (Ed.), Cognitive defects in the development of mental illness. New York: Brunner/Mazel. Pp. 43-65.
37. Rimland, B., & Fein, D. 1988. Special talents of autistic savants. In L. K. Obler and D. Fein (Eds.), The exceptional brain. Guilford: New York. Pp. 474-492.
38. Robertson, L. C., & Lamb, M. R. 1991. Neuropsychological contribution to theories of part -whole organization. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 23, 205-253.
39. Rumsey, J. M., & Hamburger, S. D. 1988. Neuropsychological findings in high-functioning men with infantile Autisme, residual state. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 102, 202-221.
40. Schuler, A. L., & Prizant, B. M. 1985. Echolalia. In E. Schopler & G. Mesibov (Eds.), Communication problem in autism. New York: Plenum. Pp. 163-184.
41. Segui, J., Mehler, J., Frauenfelder, J. H., & Morton, J. 1982. The word frequency effect and lexical access. Neuropsychologia, 20, 615-627.
42. Semenza, C., & Zettin, M. 1988. Generating proper names: A case of selective inability. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 5(6), 711-721.
43. Semenza, C., & Zettin, M. 1989. Evidence from aphasia for the role of proper names as pure referring expressions. Nature, 342, 678-679.
44. Shah, A., & Frith, U. 1993. Why do autistic individuals show superior performance on the block design task? Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 34, 1351-1364.
45. Sloboda, J., Hermelin, B., & O'Connor, N. 1985. An exceptional musical memory. Music Perception, 3, 155-170.
46. Snowling, M., & Frith, U. 1986. Comprehension in "hyperlexic" readers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 42, 392-415.
47. Strawson, P. F. 1959. Individuals. London: Methuen.
48. Tymchuk, A. J., Simmons, J. Q., & Neafsey, S. 1977. Intellectual characteristics of adolescent childhood psychotics with high verbal ability. Journal of Mental Deficiency Research, 21, 133-138.
49. Valentine, T., Brédart, S., Lawson, R., & Ward, G. 1991. What's in a name? Access to information from people's name. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 3, 147-176.
50. Young, A. W., Ellis, A. W., & Flude, B. M. 1988. Accessing stored information about familiar people. Psychological Research, 50, 111-115.
51. Young, A. W., & Ellis, H. D. 1989. Semantic Processing. In A. W. Young & H. D. Ellis (Eds.), Handbook of research on face processing. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Pp. 235-262.
52. Warrington, E. K. 1984. Recognition memory test. Winstor, NFER: Nelson.