TY - BOOK ID - 85644753 TI - Memory in autism AU - Boucher, Jill AU - Bowler, Dermot M. PY - 2008 SN - 1107178142 1281717150 9786611717155 0511409443 0511408080 0511409982 0511407343 0511490100 0511408897 0521862884 0521184010 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Autism KW - Memory KW - Memory disorders KW - Impairment, Memory KW - Memory, Disorders of KW - Memory impairment KW - Paramnesia KW - Cognition disorders KW - Cognitive neuroscience KW - Autistic disorder KW - Autism spectrum disorders KW - Hyperlexia KW - Psychological aspects. KW - Physiological aspects. KW - Pathophysiology. KW - Health Sciences KW - Psychiatry & Psychology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85644753 AB - Many people with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are remarkably proficient at remembering how things look and sound, even years after an event. They are also good at rote learning and establishing habits and routines. Some even have encyclopaedic memories. However, all individuals with ASD have difficulty in recalling personal memories and reliving experiences, and less able people may have additional difficulty in memorising facts. This book assembles research on memory in autism to examine why this happens and the effects it has on people's lives. The contributors utilise advances in the understanding of normal memory systems and their breakdown as frameworks for analysing the neuropsychology and neurobiology of memory in autism. The unique patterning of memory functions across the spectrum illuminates difficulties with sense of self, emotion processing, mental time travel, language and learning, providing a window into the nature and causes of autism itself. ER -