A visual working memory test

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I'm rather surprised autism is associated with poor spatial working memory but not poor verbal working memory. http://link.springer.com/article/10.100 ... -x?LI=true

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98.33%
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Correct: 60
Incorrect: 0
Average Response Time: 575.03ms
Average Accuracy Score: 100%
Performance Brain Age: 2.96

I could hold onto the shapes and almost see them. Sometimes I memorized the shape as a whole and sometimes I memorized two groups of 3 blocks, whichever I thought would be easier to remember. Since I sort of "saw" the shape it was easy to figure out if any one block overlapped or not.

I don't think u can take much from this test... especially us with autism. You will concentrate better sometimes.

I got age 12. I did ok but I could do better or worse easily.

I have better spatial working memory than verbal working memory.

Although I scored as a 51.63 year old, which is ~8.3 years older than I actually am. Which means I'm not good at anything. Except, I guess, visual working memory, which I score really high on.

I got 55 out of 60,
ART 604.5ms
91.66%
Age 31.51.

I am actually 31.13, so it happens to be right. But I don't believe the brain age part is really a valid conclusion - it implies a causality in one direction from brain age to ability, which is a fallacy imo. The 'brain age' of this test is just an arbitrary metric mislabelled if you ask me.

Ugh. I only did the practice test, and scored 4 correct and 8 wrong.

I couldn't remember the squares very well, but I was too slow too.
I couldn't remember which arrow to press for no and which for yes.
Once I had remembered I had to remember which finger to use to press each arrow.
By the time I had remembered that, I had to figure out how to use that specific finger.
And then time was up. Or I moved the wrong finger. Or the correct finger, but on the wrong hand.



Not gonna do the whole test - would be terrible for my confidence!

Correct: 57
Incorrect: 3
Average Response Time: 583.71ms
Average Accuracy Score: 95%
Performance Brain Age: 17.26
I'm 46

This. Although I only started doing this after the first 4 or 5 grids, hence the less than perfect score. After that I sort of got into 'the zone'.

I would've said the exact same thing and I have AS. I hate structure too but I trust my diagnosis. Just because we don't fit the criteria completely doesn't mean we don't have AS. I can think of several things that don't fit with me but I still notice some of the main difficulties that confirm my diagnosis.

If psychosis ran in my family I would probably wonder if it was really just executive functioning difficulties as a result of dormant schizophrenia. I would also doubt my diagnosis and I would probably be a hypochondriac right now.

In my situation however, I think the most likely explanation is that I have Asperger's syndrome with core criteria I just don't have all the symptoms and stereotypes that aren't necessary for diagnosis.