Discrepancy of performance among working memory-related tasks in autism spectrum disorders was caused by task characteristics, apart from working memory, which could interfere with task execution

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 312-318

  Nakahachi, Takayuki ^a,h   Iwase, Masao ^a   Takahashi, Hidetoshi ^a,b   Honaga, Eiko ^a   Sekiyama, Ryuji ^a   Ukai, Satoshi ^a   Ishii, Ryouhei ^a   Ishigami, Wataru ^c   Kajimoto, Osami ^a,d   Yamashita, Ko ^e   Hashimoto, Ryota ^f   Tanii, Hisashi ^g   Shimizu, Akira ^e   Takeda, Masatoshi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA POLICE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Osakafu Eiseikai Clinic

^d Osaka University of Foreign Studies ^*

^e Yamamoto Clinic   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^g MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorders; Digit span; Digit symbol; Vagueness; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ASPERGER SYNDROME; ATTENTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; COMPUTERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TRAIL MAKING TEST; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 33646697772     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: 14401819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2006.01507.x     Document Type: Article

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