Research has
suggested that the core handicaps of autism result from a specific
impairment in theory of mind (ToM). However, this account has been
challenged by the finding that a minority of autistic subjects pass 1st-
and even 2nd-order ToM tests while remaining socially handicapped. In
the present study, able autistic subjects who failed ToM tasks, those
who passed 1st-order, and those who passed 2nd-order tasks were tested
with a battery of more naturalistic and complex stories. Autistic
subjects were impaired at providing context-appropriate mental state
explanations for the story characters' nonliteral utterances, compared
to normal and mentally handicapped controls. Performance on the stories
was closely related to performance on standard ToM tasks, but even those
autistic subjects who passed all ToM tests showed impairments on the
more naturalistic story materials relative to normal adult controls. صرخة هاني خليفة ( hany khalifa cry )
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