A lack of self-consciousness in autism.

OBJECTIVE This study investigated self-consciousness in autism. METHOD An incidental memory task was conducted on 18 adults with high-functioning autism and 18 normal comparison subjects. Three kinds of orienting questions (phonological, semantic, and self-referent, i.e., "Does the word describe you?") were asked about target words (adjectives for personality traits) in order to induce different types of processing. This was followed by an unexpected recognition test. RESULTS While semantic processing resulted in better memory than phonological processing in both groups, self-referent processing yielded better memory performance than semantic processing in the comparison group but not in the autistic group. CONCLUSIONS The results suggest deficits in self-consciousness in individuals with autism.

• Publication year

  2002

• Venue

  American Journal of Psychiatry

• Publication date

  2002-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1176/APPI.AJP.159.8.1422PMID 12153838
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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