What Do Executive Factors Contribute to the Failure on False Belief Tasks by Children with Autism?

As children with autism have pervasive executive difficulties it is necessary to determine whether these contribute to their often-reported failure on the false belief task. Failure on this task is frequently taken to diagnose the lack of a “theory of mind”. We report two studies using two tasks tha...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of child psychology and psychiatry 1999-09, Vol.40 (6), p.859-868
Hauptverfasser:	Russell, James, Saltmarsh, Rebecca, Hill, Elisabeth
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Autism Autistic Disorder - psychology Biological and medical sciences Case-Control Studies Child Child clinical studies Child psychology Cognition Cognition & reasoning Conflict (Psychology) conflicting desires Culture Deficits Developmental disorders diagnostic tests executive functions Executive processing false belief task false photograph task Female Humans Infantile autism Learning Disorders - psychology Male Medical sciences Problem Solving Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychopathology. Psychiatry Theory of mind
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