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01-02-2007 | Original paper

Response Times of Children and Adolescents with Asperger Syndrome on an ‘Advanced’ Test of Theory of Mind

Auteurs: Nils Kaland, Lars Smith, Erik Lykke Mortensen

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 2/2007

Abstract

In the present study the response times of 10- to 20-year-old participants with Asperger syndrome (AS) (N = 21) of normal intelligence and a control group of typically developing individuals (N = 20) were recorded on a new ‘advanced’ test of theory of mind. This test taps the ability to make mental-state inferences versus physical-state inferences in a story context. The participants with AS were significantly slower than the controls on both tasks. In addition, the differences in response times between mental- and physical-state inference were significantly larger in the AS group than in the control group, suggesting that the clinical group experienced more problems than the controls in making inferences about mental states than about physical states.

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Titel: Response Times of Children and Adolescents with Asperger Syndrome on an ‘Advanced’ Test of Theory of Mind
Auteurs: Nils Kaland
Lars Smith
Erik Lykke Mortensen
Publicatiedatum: 01-02-2007
Uitgeverij: Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 2/2007
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-006-0152-8

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