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Using Other Minds as a Window Onto the World: Guessing What Happened from Clues in Behaviour

Pillai, Dhanya, Sheppard, Elizabeth, Ropar, Danielle, Marsh, Lauren, Pearson, Amy and Mitchell, Peter (2014) Using Other Minds as a Window Onto the World: Guessing What Happened from Clues in Behaviour. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 44 (10). pp. 2430-2439. ISSN 0162-3257

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Abstract

It has been proposed that mentalising involves retrodicting as well as predicting behaviour, by inferring previous mental states of a target. This study investigated whether retrodiction is impaired in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Participants watched videos of real people reacting to the researcher behaving in one of four possible ways. Their task was to decide which of these four "scenarios" each person responded to. Participants' eye movements were recorded. Participants with ASD were poorer than comparison participants at identifying the scenario to which people in the videos were responding. There were no group differences in time spent looking at the eyes or mouth. The findings imply those with ASD are impaired in using mentalising skills for retrodiction.

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Depositing User: Amy Pearson

Identifiers

Item ID: 5874
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-014-2106-x
ISSN: 0162-3257
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/5874
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-014-2106-x

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ORCID for Amy Pearson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7089-6103

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Date Deposited: 07 Jan 2016 16:00
Last Modified: 07 Jun 2022 03:30

Contributors

Author: Amy Pearson ORCID iD
Author: Dhanya Pillai
Author: Elizabeth Sheppard
Author: Danielle Ropar
Author: Lauren Marsh
Author: Peter Mitchell

University Divisions

Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing
Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing > School of Psychology

Subjects

Psychology

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