University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Leo Kannerhuis (Youz/Parnassiagroep), The Netherlands.
Autism. 2024 Sep;28(9):2254-2266. doi: 10.1177/13623613231225489. Epub 2024 Jan 19.
: Prospective memory is an important function for daily living. It is the cognitive function that helps you remember that you are meeting your friend for coffee at 2 pm tomorrow, or that you need to take your vitamins after breakfast. This cognitive function is particularly important in autistic adults, but how prospective memory is associated with increasing age, we currently do not know.: Although performance on experimental tasks that measure prospective memory decreases with age, this pattern is similar in autistic and non-autistic adults. No age effects were found for tasks that were performed outside the lab. Autistic adults and non-autistic adults perform similarly on prospective memory, and this performance remains similar when autistic and non-autistic adults age.: While our results show that prospective memory decreased with increasing age, our results do point to parallel development of prospective memory in autistic and non-autistic adults. This finding serves as a reassurance for those individuals concerned that older autistic individuals might show quicker cognitive decline.
前瞻性记忆是日常生活中的一项重要功能。它是一种认知功能，可以帮助你记住明天下午 2 点要和朋友喝咖啡，或者记得早餐后要吃维生素。这种认知功能对自闭症成年人尤为重要，但我们目前还不知道前瞻性记忆与年龄增长的关系。
虽然测量前瞻性记忆的实验任务的表现会随着年龄的增长而下降，但这种模式在自闭症和非自闭症成年人中是相似的。在实验室外进行的任务没有发现年龄效应。自闭症成年人和非自闭症成年人在前瞻性记忆方面表现相似，当自闭症和非自闭症成年人年龄增长时，这种表现仍然相似。
虽然我们的研究结果表明前瞻性记忆会随着年龄的增长而下降，但我们的研究结果确实表明自闭症和非自闭症成年人的前瞻性记忆发展是平行的。这一发现为那些担心年龄较大的自闭症患者可能会出现更快认知能力下降的人提供了一些安慰。
