Journal article
Approximating implicit and explicit mentalizing with two naturalistic video-based tasks in typical development and autism spectrum disorder
Journal of autism and developmental disorders, Vol.45(4), pp.953-965
04/2015
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-014-2249-9
PMID: 25267068
Abstract
Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have been proposed to show greater impairments in implicit than explicit mentalizing. To test this proposition, we developed two comparable naturalistic tasks for a performance-based approximation of implicit and explicit mentalizing in 28 individuals with ASD and 23 matched typically developed (TD) participants. Although both tasks were sensitive to the social impairments of individuals with ASD, implicit mentalizing was not more dysfunctional than explicit mentalizing. In TD participants, performance on the tasks did not correlate with each other, whereas in individuals with ASD they were highly correlated. These findings suggest that implicit and explicit mentalizing processes are separable in typical development. In contrast, in individuals with ASD implicit and explicit mentalizing processes are similarly impaired and closely linked suggesting a lack of developmental specification of these processes in ASD.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Approximating implicit and explicit mentalizing with two naturalistic video-based tasks in typical development and autism spectrum disorder
- Creators
- Gabriela Rosenblau - Cluster of Excellence 'Languages of Emotion', Freie Universität Berlin, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195, Berlin, Germany, gabriela.rosenblau@yale.eduDorit KliemannHauke R HeekerenIsabel Dziobek
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of autism and developmental disorders, Vol.45(4), pp.953-965
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10803-014-2249-9
- PMID
- 25267068
- ISSN
- 0162-3257
- eISSN
- 1573-3432
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/2015
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984065830802771
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