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ERIC Number: EJ1232622
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Nov
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-0162-3257
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Understanding Others' Minds: Social Inference in Preschool Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Zhou, Peng; Zhan, Likan; Ma, Huimin
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, v49 n11 p4523-4534 Nov 2019
The study used an eye-tracking task to investigate whether preschool children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are able to make inferences about others' behavior in terms of their mental states in a social setting. Fifty typically developing (TD) 4- and 5-year-olds and 22 5-year-olds with ASD participated in the study, where their eye-movements were recorded as automatic responses to given situations. The results show that unlike their TD peers, children with ASD failed to exhibit eye gaze patterns that reflect their ability to infer about others' behavior by spontaneously encoding socially relevant information and attributing mental states to others. Implications of the findings were discussed in relation to the proposal that implicit/spontaneous Theory of Mind is persistently impaired in ASD.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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