TY - JOUR
T1 - Brief report: cognitive flexibility and focused attention in children and adolescents with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism as measured on the computerized version of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test
AU - Kaland, Nils
AU - Smith, Lars
AU - Mortensen, Erik Lykke
N1 - Keywords: Adolescent; Asperger Syndrome; Attention; Autistic Disorder; Child; Cognition Disorders; Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; Discrimination Learning; Female; Humans; Male; Memory, Short-Term; Neuropsychological Tests; Problem Solving; Psychometrics; Reference Values; Reproducibility of Results; Set (Psychology); Software
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - The aim of the present study was to assess mental flexibility and set maintenance of a group of individuals with Asperger syndrome (AS) or high-functioning autism (HFA) (N = 13; mean age 16,4), as compared with a matched group of typically developing children and adolescents (N = 13; mean age 15,6) on the computerized version of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST). The participants in the AS/HFA group performed less well than the controls on all categories of the WCST, but the differences did not reach conventional statistical significance on most categories of the WCST. On the category failure to maintain set, however, the AS/HFA participants performed significantly less well than the controls, suggesting a deficit of focused attention.
AB - The aim of the present study was to assess mental flexibility and set maintenance of a group of individuals with Asperger syndrome (AS) or high-functioning autism (HFA) (N = 13; mean age 16,4), as compared with a matched group of typically developing children and adolescents (N = 13; mean age 15,6) on the computerized version of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST). The participants in the AS/HFA group performed less well than the controls on all categories of the WCST, but the differences did not reach conventional statistical significance on most categories of the WCST. On the category failure to maintain set, however, the AS/HFA participants performed significantly less well than the controls, suggesting a deficit of focused attention.
U2 - 10.1007/s10803-007-0474-1
DO - 10.1007/s10803-007-0474-1
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 17965928
SN - 0162-3257
VL - 38
SP - 1161
EP - 1165
JO - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
JF - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
IS - 6
ER -