Does the autistic child have a "theory of mind"?

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Summary

A new model of metarepresentational development is used to predict a cognitive deficit which could explain a crucial component of the social impairment in childhood autism.

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1985-10-01
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Autism, Psychology, Theory of mind, Cognition, Infantile autism

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