#Explicit memory serial#

Moreover, the participants with ASD were less accurate and made more omissions than the controls in the EM task. Episodic material includes autobiographical information, such as the birth of a child or graduation from high school, and. 34 More specifically, episodic memory is the conscious recollection of personal events, along with the specific time and place (context) that they occurred.

Episodic memory refers to the ability to recollect everyday experiences. When they were tested for EM, the participants with ASD did not experience a significant reduction in their reaction times during the blocks with the previously learned sequence, suggesting an impairment in EM. Explicit memory, often referred to as declarative memory, can further be divided into episodic memory and semantic memory. The ability to implicitly learn the temporal sequence of events across the blocks in the SRTT was intact in the youths with ASD.

Twenty-five youths with high-functioning ASD and 29 age-matched and IQ-matched typically developing youths undertook both tasks. Explicit memory, sometimes called declarative memory is the conscious, intentional recollection of previous experiences and information.

#Explicit memory serial#

The aim of this study was to clarify such conflicting results by examining IM and EM using two comparable versions of the Serial Reaction Time Task (SRTT) in the same group of children and adolescents with ASD. However, the findings on IM and EM in youths with ASD remain debated. Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) usually manifest heterogeneous impairments in their higher cognitive functions, including their implicit memory (IM) and explicit memory (EM).