Bowler D M, Matthews N J, Gardiner J M
Department of Psychology, City University, London, U.K.
Neuropsychologia. 1997 Jan;35(1):65-70. doi: 10.1016/s0028-3932(96)00054-1.
Two experiments are described in which the memory of adults with Asperger's syndrome is compared with that of verbal IQ controls. The results of the first experiment showed that the Asperger subjects resembled autistic adults and children in their failure to use category information to aid their free recall. In the second experiment, both groups of subjects showed similar priming effects in an implicit stem completion task and similar performance on an explicit cued recall task. Moreover, both groups also showed more priming for items that they had read at study and better recall for items that they had to generate at study, suggesting that the cued recall of the Asperger subjects did not result from contamination by automatic or involuntary processes.
本文描述了两项实验，其中将患有阿斯伯格综合征的成年人的记忆力与语言智商匹配的对照组进行了比较。第一个实验的结果表明，阿斯伯格综合征受试者在自由回忆时未能利用类别信息，这一点与自闭症成年人和儿童相似。在第二个实验中，两组受试者在隐性词干补全任务中表现出相似的启动效应，在显性线索回忆任务中表现也相似。此外，两组受试者对学习时读过的项目都表现出更强的启动效应，对学习时必须生成的项目回忆得更好，这表明阿斯伯格综合征受试者的线索回忆并非自动或非自愿过程的干扰所致。
