Delayed Self-recognition in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Abstract

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Memory and the self in autism

“…Further supporting this suggestion, studies have shown that children with ASD (both high-functioning and mixed ability) do not significantly differ from age and verbal ability matched comparison children in terms of their ability to recognise delayed video images of themselves (Lind & Bowler, 2009a). Such findings may be taken as evidence of intact (higher-order)…”

“…temporally extended physical self-awareness but do not necessarily imply intact (higherorder) temporally extended psychological self-awareness (see Lind & Bowler, 2009a).…”

“…For example, it is widely acknowledged that children with ASD have difficulty using first person pronouns such as "I" and "me" (Jordan, 1996;Lee, Hobson, & Chiat, 1994;Lind & Bowler, 2009a). Moreover, individuals with ASD (even high-functioning individuals) also show diminished conscious awareness of their own emotions (Ben Shalom et al, 2006;Silani et al, 2008), mental states (Williams & Happé, in press, 2009b), and autistic traits (Johnson, Filliter, & Murphy, 2009).…”

Theory of own mind in autism

“…However, highlighting that this task measures awa thinking, success on this task is not significantly associated with performance on traditional ToM tasks (Suddendorf, 1999;Zelazo, Sommerville, & Nichols, 1999). Lind and Bowler (2009) found that, amongst participants who displayed live video self-recognition (which 95% of all participants did), 93% (n = 25) of participants with autism and 100% (n = 30) of age-and ability-matched comparison participants passed the delayed video self-recognition task. These results are also reported by Nielsen, Suddendorf, & Dissanayake (2006) who used the same task with highfunctioning children with autism.…”

Eyewitness Testimony in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Review

“…Since findings from several lines of research suggest that people with ASD can also be responsible for committing criminal acts (see, e.g., Allen et al, 2008;Browning & Caulfield, 2011;Howlin, 1997;Woodbury-Smith et al, 2005;Woodbury-Smith, Clare, Holland & Kearns, 2006), future work is needed to explore how people with ASD who have actually perpetrated the act behave when asked to testify. For example, given the difficulties that people with ASD have in incorporating their concept of the self when recollecting episodic events (e.g., Crane & Goddard, 2008;Crane et al, 2009;Lind, 2010;Lind & Bowler, 2009a, 2010, they may struggle to recall such an event where they played an active causal role, particularly when combined with the increased interrogative pressure of being questioned as a suspect.…”