ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2020
Increasing Extrinsic Motivation Improves Time-Based Prospective Memory in Adults with Autism: Relations with Executive Functioning and Mentalizing.
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- Examining whether adults with autism spectrum disorder encounter multiple problems in theory of mind: a study based on meta-analysis.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2023Pooled it
- Does Ongoing Task Load Influence Prospective Remembering in Autism Spectrum Disorders?Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026Article
- Prospective memory and executive functions in adults across the wider autistic spectrum.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Event- and Time-Based Prospective Memory and Time Perception in Autistic Adults With and Without Intellectual Disabilities.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026Article
- Prospective Memory Performance of Autistic Adults in Everyday Life: The Role of Stress and Motivation.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Article
- Characterizing Inhibitory Control Challenges Among Autistic Adults: An Examination of Demographic and Psychiatric Moderators and Associations with Anxiety Symptomatology.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Increased anticholinergic medication use in middle-aged and older autistic adults and its associations with self-reported memory difficulties and cognitive decline.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Article
- Self-reported memory of autistic young adults and associated real-world outcomes.Research in autism spectrum disorders · 2023Article
- Do animated triangles reveal a marked difficulty among autistic people with reading minds?Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2021Review
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Abstract
Time-based prospective memory (PM) is diminished under various task demands in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, it is still unclear what underpins their impairment or how it could be remediated. This study explored whether instructions to prioritise one element of a PM task over another improved performance in adults with ASD (compared to a group of matched neurotypical adults), and how that is related to cognitive abilities. Results indicated that importance instructions significantly improved the PM performance of participants with ASD. Moreover, the extent of the benefit was associated significantly with objectively-measured executive set-shifting ability and self-reported inhibitory control ability (the poorer the set-shifting/inhibitory control, the greater the benefit). Implications for future research and clinical practice are discussed.
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