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Sentence Recall In Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Brett Wallace
Sentence Recall In Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Brett Wallace
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
There is an age-shift in neurotypical children: younger children tend to remember information in a verbatim manner so they store item-specific surface characteristics; between nine and ten children engage in gist recall where they store meanings of presented information. The aim of the present study was to explore false memory in children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), as some research suggests that they develop gist recall at a later age than neurotypical children. We are also interested in the role of working memory.
One approach to understanding false memory creation is activation-monitoring (AM) theory. Working memory can play a role …