Memory in autism theory and evidence jill boucher dermot bowler editors many people with autism spectrum disorders asds are remarkably proficient at remembering how things look and sound even years after an event they are also good at rote learning and establishing habits and routines. These memories are not generally associated with spatial temporal or contextual information crucially retrieval from each system is associated with a distinct form of conscious awareness episodic retrieval or remembering involves autonoetic self knowing consciousness whereas semantic retrieval or knowing involves noetic consciousness thus semantic retrieval might involve for example bringing a known fact to mind whereas episodic retrieval might involve . This book assembles research on memory in autism to examine why this happens and the effects it has on peoples lives the contributors utilise advances in the understanding of normal memory systems and their breakdown as frameworks for analysing the neuropsychology and neurobiology of memory in autism the unique patterning of memory functions across the spectrum illuminates difficulties with sense of self emotion processing mental time travel language and learning providing . This book assembles research on memory in autism to examine why this happens and the effects it has on peoples lives the contributors utilise advances in the understanding of normal memory systems and their breakdown as frameworks for analysing the neuropsychology and neurobiology of memory in autism the unique patterning of memory functions across the spectrum illuminates difficulties with sense of self emotion processing mental time travel language and learning providing a window