Age and sensory processing abnormalities predict declines in encoding and recall of temporally manipulated speech in high-functioning adults with ASD

Autism Research

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 40-49

  Mayer, Jennifer L ^a   Heaton, Pamela F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Auditory Processing; Autism Spectrum Disorders; Speech Perception

Indexed keywords

AGING; AUDITORY PROCESSING; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 84894312631     PISSN: 19393792     EISSN: 19393806     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aur.1333     Document Type: Article

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