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Owned objects occupy a privileged cognitive processing status and are viewed almost as extensions of the self. It has been demonstrated that items over which a sense of ownership is felt will be better remembered than other items (an example of the ''self-reference effect''). As autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterised by an a typical self-concept, people with ASD may not demonstrate this ''ownership effect''. Two experiments were conducted which replicate and extend Cunningham, Turk, MacDonald, and Macrae (2008). In Experiment 1, neurotypical adults completed a card sorting task and cards belonging to the 'self' were better remembered than cards belonging to another person. In Experiment 2, adults with ASD recalled self-and other owned items equally well. These results shed light both on the relation between sense of self and the ownership effect, and the nature of the self-concept in ASD.

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Author

Emma Grisdale; Sophie E. Lind; Madeline J. Eacott; David M. Williams

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2014

Language

EN

Field

Neuroscience (Life Sciences)