Metamemory in children with autism: Exploring "feeling-of-knowing" in episodic and semantic memory

Neuropsychology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 19-27

  Wojcik, Dominika Z ^a   Moulin, Chris J A ^b   Souchay, Celine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Autism; Feeling of knowing; Memory; Metamemory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84878609180     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: 19311559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0030526     Document Type: Article

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