autism seems to involve an impairment that is specific to mentalizing, whereas mentalizing need not be influenced by general development of the mind, so long as the specific module dedicated to the Theory of Mind remains intact.
Abnormalities in the social and communicative development of children with autism have recently been related to an impairment in their ability to attribute mental states to others, that is, in the development of their 'theory of mind'. The present paper investigates if this deficit is specific to...
Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg’sAutism and Empathy websitestarted me thinking about the whole empathy question in regards to autistic people — again. Inmy first postabout autistics and empathy, I mentioned Theory of Mind issues as one of the possible reasons why there is a perception that autistic pe...
People with high functioning autism (HFA) and Asperger syndrome (AS) have deficits in theory of mind (ToM). Traditional ToM tasks are not sensitive enough ... MD Rutherford,S Baron-Cohen,S Wheelwright - 《Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders》 被引量: 815发表: 2002年 Performance of ...
The present paper is an overview of our research from the last few years, which was aimed at getting a finer image of Theory of Mind impairment and its consequences in autism. Theory of Mind is a crucial human cognitive ability to understand and predict others' behaviour by attributing mental...
Boucher,J.The theory of mind hypothesis of autism: Explanation, evidence and assessment.British Jounral of Disorders of Communication. 1989The theory of mind hypothesis of autism: Explanation, evidence and assessment. Boucher,J. British Jounral of Disorders of Communication . 1989...
The theory of mind account of autism has been remarkably successful in making specific predictions about the impairments in socialization, imagination and communication shown by people with autism. It cannot, however, explain either the non-triad features of autism, or earlier experimental findings of...
Recent representations of autism frequently include an assumption that autism is the result of a "theory of mind" deficit (i.e., an inability to understand others' mental states). This notion is examined using a social constructionist perspective. The belief that autism is a sort of "mind-bli...
Theory of own mind in autism: Evidence of a specific deficit in self-awareness? Assuming that self-awareness is not a unitary phenomenon, and that one can be aware of different aspects of self at any one time, it follows that selective... D Williams - 《Autism》 被引量: 150发表: 2010...
(2010). Theory of own mind in ... Williams,D. - 《Autism》 被引量: 126发表: 2010年 Theory of Mind and the Self This paper will discuss one aspect of the self, the ability to reflect on one's own inner states, in relation to recent work on the cognitive and neural ba... F ...