Two Intact Executive Capacities in Children with Autism: Implications for the Core Executive Dysfunctions in the Disorder

By J. Russell, Christopher Jarrold, B. Hood. 1999

Subfields: Neuroscience, Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Inner Speech: Development, Cognitive Functions, Phenomenology, and Neurobiology (2015, background): “Inner speech was indirectly probed by Russell, Jarrold, and Hood (1999) in a study of executive skills in children with autism and typically developing matched controls.”
Do children with autism use inner speech and visuospatial resources for the service of executive control? Evidence from suppression in dual tasks. (2010, background): “In autism, there appears to be a failure to use inner speech to facilitate executive performance in multiple cognitive domains (e.g. Joseph et al., 2005; Russell et al., 1999).”
Brief Report: Further Evidence for a Link Between Inner Speech Limitations and Executive Function in High-Functioning Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (2014, background): “Russell et al., for instance, suggest that ASD individuals perform more poorly than neurotypical individuals on rule-bound tasks because they do not use inner speech to verbally remind themselves of the rules (Biro and Russell 2001; Russell et al. 1999).”
Brief Report: Further Evidence for Inner Speech Deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorders (2009, unknown): “children on tasks requiring verbal rule use ( Russell et al. 1999 ).”
Private Speech and Executive Functioning among High-Functioning Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (2007, unknown): “…priming and Stroop tasks, that cognitive inhibition (having to keep one relevant aspect of the task in mind while ignoring or inhibiting another salient aspect) is not consistently disturbed among individuals with autism (Hill, 2004; Ozonoff, 1997; Ozonoff & Strayer, 1997; Russell et al., 1999).”
Intact inner speech use in autism spectrum disorder: evidence from a short-term memory task. (2008, unknown): “…self-concept in ASD, rather than a lack of inner speech use, could also partially explain the contrast between the performance of participants on our memory task and their typically poor performance on executive functioning tasks which also seem to require inner speech use (Russell et al., 1999).”
Inner speech is used to mediate short-term memory, but not planning, among intellectually high-functioning adults with autism spectrum disorder (2012, background): “Russell et al. (1999) argue that performance on such tasks is facilitated by the use of inner speech as a tool for self-reminding about which information to follow and which information to ignore.”
Evaluating the theory of executive dysfunction in autism (2004, background): “Tasks that have an executive component but in which rules do not lack a rationale—such as A-not-B tasks (Piaget, 1954) and the Tubes task (Hood, 1995)—are passed by children with autism (Russell et al., 1999a, see also Russell, 1997, 2002).”
Executive dysfunction in autism. (2004, result): “On a classic test of inhibition, the Stroop task (see Box 2), autistic children and adolescents are unimpaired [21,24, 36 ] (Figure 2). This is in contrast to other neurodevelopmental disorders clearly associated with executive dysfunction such as ADHD [21] and phenylketonuria [37].”