http://www.apa.org/journals/releases/neu20121.pdf
Quote:
Children with autism acquire less information from complex stimuli, including complex scenes, sentences, and stories. This difference in memory functioning may contribute to their impaired adaptive functioning in social communication and problem solving.
I recently found this article and I thought it was pretty interesting. It’s a long read, and I admit I skimmed most of it, but a few key parts, like the one I quoted above from the conclusion, really caught my attention. For example, earlier in the article, they mentioned that children with autism (as most of us know) have a more difficult time recalling faces, but the reason they presented was that faces are a very complex visual stimuli. I hadn’t thought about it from that angle.
To be honest, I’ve always had a really hard time remembering really complex story lines in movies and books, even though I can remember whether or not I liked it. I need to see or read a movie or book at least twice in order to really remember the details. I’ve always been that way.
It was also mentioned earlier on that ASD children also had a much more difficult time with recalling recent personal experiences. This really hit home for me – I always flounder when people ask me things like what I did on the weekend, because my mind just always seems to go blank.
27 Mar 2007, 1:19 pm
