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Direct linkMolesworth, Catherine J.; Bowler, Dermot M.; Hampton, James A. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2005
Background: There are two accounts of categorization performance in autism: that there is an impairment in prototype formation (Klinger & Dawson, 2001) and that there is an impairment in processing features held in common between stimuli (Plaisted, O'Riordan, & Baron-Cohen, 1998). These accounts, together with central coherence theory (Frith,…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Mental Age, Rhetoric, Autism
Bowler, Dermot M.; Briskman, Jackie; Gurvidi, Nicole; Fornells-Ambrojo, Miriam – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2005
To evaluate the claim that correct performance on unexpected transfer false-belief tasks specifically involves mental-state understanding, two experiments were carried out with children with autism, intellectual disabilities, and typical development. In both experiments, children were given a standard unexpected transfer false-belief task and a…
Descriptors: Mental Age, Mental Retardation, Autism, Cognitive Development
