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

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 445-454

  Smith, Brenda J ^a   Gardiner, John M ^a   Bowler, Dermot M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asperger's Syndrome; Autism; Free recall; Memory; Relational deficit; Task support

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL;

EID: 33847687753     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-006-0180-4     Document Type: Article

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