Autism: beyond “theory of mind”
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Autism: beyond "theory of mind".
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 abnormal assets and deficits on non-social tasks. These unexplained aspects of autism, and the...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognition
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/0010-0277(94)90024-8