Faculty of School Education, Graduate School of School Education, Joetsu University of Education, 1 Yamayashi-machi, Joetsu, 943-8512, Japan.
Department of Education, Kansai University of Welfare Science, Kashiwara, Japan.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2020 Feb;50(2):529-539. doi: 10.1007/s10803-019-04274-9.
To investigate the early development of episodic memory and future thinking in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), we selected 94 participants each from a group of ASD and typically developing (TD) preschoolers. They were required to remember newly-acquired knowledge sources and anticipate action timings necessary for future events. Five-year-old children with ASD remembered their knowledge sources similar to TD children; however, the 6-year-old children performed more poorly than their TD counterparts. ASD children failed to anticipate future action timings in comparison with TD children. Although source memory and future thinking were related in TD children, they were unrelated in children with ASD. The results suggest that episodic memory and foresight are deficient and unintegrated in ASD children during the preschool years.
为了研究自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）中情景记忆和未来思维的早期发展，我们从一组 ASD 和典型发育（TD）学龄前儿童中各选择了 94 名参与者。他们需要记住新获得的知识来源，并预测未来事件所需的行动时间。与 TD 儿童相比，患有 ASD 的 5 岁儿童可以记住他们的知识来源；然而，6 岁的儿童表现不如他们的 TD 同龄人。与 TD 儿童相比，ASD 儿童无法预测未来的行动时间。尽管 TD 儿童的源记忆和未来思维相关，但 ASD 儿童的二者不相关。研究结果表明，在学龄前，ASD 儿童的情景记忆和远见是不足的，并且二者没有整合。
