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Consciousness and Cognition
Volume 16, Issue 1, March 2007, Pages 124-143
 
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Factors affecting conscious awareness in the recollective experience of adults with Asperger’s syndromestar, open

Dermot M. Bowlera, Corresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author, John M. Gardinerb and Sebastian B. Gaigga

aDepartment of Psychology, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, UK bDepartment of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RH, UK

Received 6 June 2005. 
Available online 28 February 2006.

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Abstract

Bowler, Gardiner, and Grice (2000a) have shown a small but significant impairment of autonoetic awareness or remembering involved in the episodic memory experiences of adults with Asperger’s syndrome. This was compensated by an increase in experiences of noetic awareness or knowing. The question remains as to whether the residual autonoetic awareness in Asperger individuals is qualitatively the same as that of typical comparison participants. Three experiments are presented in which manipulations that have shown differential effects on different kinds of conscious awareness in memory in typical populations are employed with a sample of adults with Asperger’s syndrome. The results suggest that the experiences of remembering reported by such individuals, although reduced in quantity, are qualitatively similar to those seen in the typical population. The results are discussed in the context of current theories of awareness in episodic memory.

Keywords: Autism; Asperger’s syndrome; Episodic awareness

Article Outline

1. Introduction
2. Experiment 1
3. Method
3.1. Participants
3.2. Design
3.2.1. Stimuli
3.2.2. Procedure
3.2.3. Results
3.3. Discussion of Experiment 1
4. Experiment 2
5. Method
5.1. Participants
5.2. Design and materials
5.3. Procedure
5.4. Results
5.5. Discussion of Experiment 2
6. Experiment 3
7. Method
7.1. Participants
7.2. Design and materials
7.3. Procedure
7.4. Results
7.5. Discussion of Experiment 3
8. General discussion
Appendix A. Appendix
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