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- Title
Comparing the Executive Function Ability of Autistic and Non-autistic Adolescents with a Manualised Battery of Neuropsychological Tasks.
- Authors
Kenny, Lorcan; Remington, Anna; Pellicano, Elizabeth
- Abstract
Performance on a single executive function (EF) task (e.g., a card sorting task) is often taken to represent ability on the underlying subcomponent of EF (e.g., set shifting) without accounting for the non-specific and non-executive skills employed to complete the task. This study used a manualised battery of EF tasks to derive individual task scores and latent EF scores. Seventy-nine adolescents aged between 11 and 19 years, including 37 autistic and 42 non-autistic participants, matched on cognitive ability, completed the battery. Autistic adolescents had moderate global EF difficulties and had significantly more difficulties on some individual tasks. However, the samples did not differ on any of the specific individual subcomponents of EF (fluency, cognitive control and working memory).
- Subjects
EXECUTIVE function; STUTTERING; COGNITION; AUTISM in adolescence; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL tests; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 2022, Vol 52, Issue 7, p3169
- ISSN
0162-3257
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10803-021-05034-4