An advanced test of theory of mind: Understanding of story characters' thoughts and feelings by able autistic, mentally handicapped, and normal children and adults

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Summary

Autistic subjects were impaired at providing context-appropriate mental state explanations for the story characters' nonliteral utterances, compared to normal and mentally handicapped controls.

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Published
1994-04-01
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Psychology, Autism, Theory of mind, Feeling, Developmental psychology

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