Metacognitive Monitoring and Control of Eyewitness Memory Reports in Autism

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dc.contributor.authorMaras, K., Norris, J. E., & Brewer, N.
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-23T15:13:56Z
dc.date.available2018-01-23T15:13:56Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractProviding 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, participants were instructed to maximize accuracy over informativeness by selecting one of their Phase 2 answers as their final answer. They either received the questions socially (from the experimenter) or answered them online. There were no group differences in accuracy or metacognitive monitoring, with both autistic and TD witnesses demonstrating: (a) a strong preference for reporting fine-grained details at the expense of accuracy; (b) improved though still suboptimal grain size reporting when instructed to maximize accuracy over informativeness; (c) effective accuracy monitoring; and (d) higher overall accuracy when questions were delivered socially. There was, however, a subtle difference in metacognitive control, with autistic witnesses performing more poorly than TD witnesses when questions were delivered socially, but not when they were delivered online. These findings contrast with evidence suggesting that autism is marked by impairments in episodic memory and metacognitive monitoring and control.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMaras, K., Norris, J. E., & Brewer, N. (2020). Metacognitive monitoring and control of eyewitness memory reports in autism. Autism Research, 13(11), 2017-2029.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/aur.2278
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/3692
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAutismen_US
dc.subjectmemoryen_US
dc.subjectinterviewingen_US
dc.subjectsupporten_US
dc.subjectwitnessen_US
dc.subjectmetacognitionen_US
dc.subjectmonitoringen_US
dc.subjectresearchen_US
dc.subjectInternational Resourcesen_US
dc.subjectUnited Kingdomen_US
dc.titleMetacognitive Monitoring and Control of Eyewitness Memory Reports in Autismen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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