Episodic Recollection Difficulties in ASD Result from Atypical Relational Encoding: Behavioral and Neural Evidence

Autism Research

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 317-327

  Gaigg, Sebastian B ^a   Bowler, Dermot M ^a   Ecker, Christine ^b   Calvo Merino, Beatriz ^a   Murphy, Declan G ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism; Familiarity; Item memory; Recollection; Relational memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARAMETRIC TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPONSE TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WORD RECOGNITION; YOUNG ADULT; BRAIN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84931568839     PISSN: 19393792     EISSN: 19393806     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aur.1448     Document Type: Article

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