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Autism
Some Patients Have Memory Advantage for Certain Tasks
September 9th, 2000
A new study suggests that some people with autism may have a better memory when performing certain tasks than do non-autistic people. Researchers found that subjects with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) performed better on a "false-memory" test than did normal control subjects. People with ASD have an impaired ability to use context; in this case, that inability improved the ASD subjects' ability to recognize which words had been on a word list. The normal subjects were more apt to have false memories - they thought that they recognized words that were in fact not on the list. But these "wrong" words tended to fit the context of the list. ...
Source: Pain & Central Nervous System Week (2000-09-09)
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