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The Episodic Memory Profile in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Bayesian Meta-Analysis.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Neural dysfunctions associated with atypical memory in ASD: an ALE meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Episodic memory impairment and its influencing factors in individuals with autism spectrum disorder: systematic review and meta-analysis.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2025Pooled it
- Cognitive and brain morphological deviations in middle-to-old aged autistic adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2024Pooled it
- How is race perceived during adolescence? A meta-analysis of the own-race bias.Developmental psychology · 2024Pooled it
- Brain correlates of declarative memory atypicalities in autism: a systematic review of functional neuroimaging findings.Molecular autism · 2023Pooled it
- Graph Ricci curvatures reveal atypical functional connectivity in autism spectrum disorder.Scientific reports · 2022Pooled it
- The neurodivergent blood donor: Fairness, discrimination, screening, and behavior.Transfusion · 2026Article
- Sex Disparities in Autism Spectrum Disorder Among Adolescents in the Western Pacific Region: Insights From Epidemiological Trends and Clinical Sample.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- E/I imbalance and internal noise cause weak neural representations and face recognition challenges in ASD.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Atypical Olfactory Identification, Memory and Metacognition in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Overlapping and distinct intrinsic connectivity of hippocampal and triple networks in autistic individuals with and without a comorbid condition of ADHD.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Autistic Individuals Do Not Alter Visual Processing Strategy During Encoding Versus Recognition of Faces: A Hidden Markov Modeling Approach.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Identifying Core Joint Attention Behaviors and Exploring Pathways to Autistic Traits in School-Aged Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Network Analysis Study.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Emotional Arousal-Induced Episodic Memory Benefits Are Attenuated in Autism Spectrum Disorders, Especially in Older Age.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Article
- 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
- An investigation of the specificity and vividness of autobiographical memories and future events produced in response to disgust-related cues among individuals with eating disorders.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Event perception and event memory in real-world experience.Nature reviews psychology · 2024Article
- Attitudes of Chinese public towards the autism community: Evidence from a decade of Weibo data.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Atypical pattern separation memory and its association with restricted interests and repetitive behaviors in autistic children.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2024Article
- Scene construction and autobiographical memory retrieval in autism spectrum disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Review
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Abstract
Although autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are commonly characterized by diminished episodic memory, the literature in this area is mixed. We address these inconsistent findings by employing multilevel Bayesian meta-analysis to quantify episodic memory differences between individuals with ASD and typically developing (TD) controls. We used meta-regression to evaluate the effects of test modality (e.g., word list, story recall), delay interval (immediate vs. delayed), retrieval demands (recognition vs. recall), and sensory modality (auditory vs. visual) on episodic memory in ASD. A total of 338 effect sizes from 113 empirical articles, including 5,632 unique participants (ASD = 2,777, TD = 2,855), were included. Results show that the memory deficits associated with ASD were larger for recall (g = -0.52, se = 0.04, 95% CrI [-0.60, -0.43]) compared to recognition (g = -0.25, se = 0.05, 95% CrI [-0.35, -0.14]) and differed based on the testing modality. For example, effect sizes were smallest for words (g = -0.28, se = 0.05, 95% CrI [-0.38, -0.18]), pictures (g = -0.38, se = 0.07, 95% CrI [-0.52, -0.24]), and figure reproduction (g = -0.49, se = 0.11, 95% CrI [-0.70, -0.27]). However, effect sizes for sentences (g = -0.59, se = 0.20, 95% CrI [-1.00, -0.21]), stories (Hedges' g = -0.54, se = 0.08, 95% CrI [-0.69, -0.38]) and staged events (g = -0.75, se = 0.10, 95% CrI [-0.95, -0.55]) were much larger. These findings suggest that ASD is associated with a small to medium reduction in scores on episodic memory tests relative to TD controls.
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