Metacognitive Monitoring and Control of Eyewitness Memory Reports in Autism.

ABSTRACT: Providing eyewitness testimony involves monitoring one's memory to provide a detailed and accurate account: reporting details likely to be accurate and withholding potentially inaccurate details. Autistic individuals reportedly experience difficulties in both retrieving episodic memories and monitoring their accuracy, which has important implications for eyewitness testimony. Thirty autistic and 33 IQ-matched typically developing (TD) participants viewed a video of a mock bank robbery followed by three phases of questions (with judgments of confidence). In Phase 1, participants freely generated the granularity of their responses (i.e., fine- or coarse-grained). In Phase 2, participants answered the same questions but provided both a fine- and a coarse-grained answer. In Phase 3, participan

SUBMITTER: Maras K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7754119 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature