Heaton, P and Ludlow, AK and Roberson, D (2008) 'When less is more: Poor discrimination but good colour memory in autism.' Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2 (1). pp. 147-156. ISSN 1750-9467

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Abstract

In two experiments children with autism and two groups of controls matched for either chronological or non-verbal mental age were tested on tasks of colour discrimination and memory. The results from experiment 1 showed significantly poorer colour discrimination in children with autism in comparison to typically developing chronological age matched controls. However, in experiment 2, children with autism, retained unlabelled perceptual colour information to a significantly higher level than either group of controls. The findings suggest that enhanced performance on perceptual tasks relate to a reduced tendency to encode verbal information in memory.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Autism; Colour; Perception; Memory
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions:	Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Psychology, Department of
SWORD Depositor:	Elements
Depositing User:	Elements
Date Deposited:	11 Nov 2011 17:38
Last Modified:	15 Jan 2022 01:05
URI:	http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/1191

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