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Performance of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder on Advanced Theory of Mind Tasks

Ella Brent

Brent Child and Family Clinic, London, UK

Patricia Rios

Harper House Children’s Service, Herts, UK

Francesca Happé

Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK

Tony Charman

Institute of Child Health, London, UK, t.charman{at}ich.ucl.ac.uk

Although a number of advanced theory of mind tasks have been developed, there is sparse information on whether performance on different tasks is associated. The study examined the performance of 20 high-functioning 6- to 12-year-old children with autism spectrum disorder and 20 controls on three high-level theory of mind tasks: Strange Stories, Cartoons and the children’s version of the Eyes task. The pattern of findings suggests that the three tasks may share differing, non-specific, information-processing requirements in addition to tapping any putative mentalizing ability. They may also indicate a degree of dissociation between social-cognitive and social-perceptual or affective components of the mentalizing system.

Key Words: Asperger syndrome • autism • emotion recognition • mentalizing • theory of mind

Autism, Vol. 8, No. 3, 283-299 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1362361304045217
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