What is it about?
This study is about the response times of participants with high-functioning autism of normal intelligence and a control group of typically developing individuals on an ‘advanced’ test of theory of mind. This task assesses the ability to make mental-state inferences versus physical-state inferences in a story context.
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Why is it important?
The participants with high-functioning autism were significantly slower than the controls on both of two tasks. In addition, the differences in response times between mental and physical-state inference were significantly larger in the autism group than in the control group.
Perspectives
The study finds that high-functioning individuals with autism have greater difficulty inferring mental states than physical states, highlighting a specific problem in theory of mind tasks for this group.
Professor Lars Smith
University of Oslo
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This page is a summary of: Response Times of Children and Adolescents with Asperger Syndrome on an ‘Advanced’ Test of Theory of Mind, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, August 2006, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-006-0152-8.
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