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[conuly]

Effects of autism reach beyond language.

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[deceptica]

Heh, I found it interesting that they just had to express those results in negative terms. So autistics didn't fall for the lure and identified things correctly... obviously this doesn't mean that they have better memory or whatever - they have problems with context!

Not saying that's not true... it's just that when I first read about those test results, I thought they really sounded like something good.

[conuly]

Yeah, you noticed that too?

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

There's an interesting thing that relates to that from cognitive psychology... looking at "strong" and "weak" short-term memories and the capability of forgetting.

Give people list of a=b words to study
See how many they retain.
Switch them to a list of a=c words
See how many they retain of a=c, how many they switch back to a=b, and how many don't connect to either.
Switch back to a=b words.
See how many they retain of a=c, how many they switch back to a=b, and how many don't connect to either.

Some people are really good at "suppressing" earlier memories. This is good, when those memories are in fact wrong, but bad if they were miscorrected, etc.

[codeman38.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah... I was thinking, "falling for the lure is supposed to be a good thing?!"

Crazy neurotypicals. :-p

[leora.livejournal.com]

I know my reading of it is biased, but I saw it more as saying that they have some strengths others don't have and some weaknesses others don;t have. Which is pretty much my view of autism - it gives you a tendency toward different strengths and weaknesses than being NT. Then it's all about what you do with it.

[deceptica]

Heh, I found it interesting that they just had to express those results in negative terms. So autistics didn't fall for the lure and identified things correctly... obviously this doesn't mean that they have better memory or whatever - they have problems with context!

Not saying that's not true... it's just that when I first read about those test results, I thought they really sounded like something good.

[conuly]

Yeah, you noticed that too?

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

There's an interesting thing that relates to that from cognitive psychology... looking at "strong" and "weak" short-term memories and the capability of forgetting.

Give people list of a=b words to study
See how many they retain.
Switch them to a list of a=c words
See how many they retain of a=c, how many they switch back to a=b, and how many don't connect to either.
Switch back to a=b words.
See how many they retain of a=c, how many they switch back to a=b, and how many don't connect to either.

Some people are really good at "suppressing" earlier memories. This is good, when those memories are in fact wrong, but bad if they were miscorrected, etc.

[codeman38.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah... I was thinking, "falling for the lure is supposed to be a good thing?!"

Crazy neurotypicals. :-p

[leora.livejournal.com]

I know my reading of it is biased, but I saw it more as saying that they have some strengths others don't have and some weaknesses others don;t have. Which is pretty much my view of autism - it gives you a tendency toward different strengths and weaknesses than being NT. Then it's all about what you do with it.