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"Hunting with a knife and ... fork": examining central coherence in autism, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and typical development with a linguistic task

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"I am sane but he is mad": Insight and illness attributions to self and others in psychosis

scientific article published on 26 February 2013

'Everyday memory' impairments in autism spectrum disorders.

scientific article published in April 2011

'Theory of mind' in the brain. Evidence from a PET scan study of Asperger syndrome

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A Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Cultural and Contextual Factors on Autism Across the Globe

scientific article published on 21 February 2020

A Meta-analysis of Outcome Studies of Autistic Adults: Quantifying Effect Size, Quality, and Meta-regression

scientific article published on 17 November 2020

A Qualitative Exploration of the Female Experience of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

A case study of a multiply talented savant with an autism spectrum disorder: neuropsychological functioning and brain morphometry.

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A clinical assessment tool for advanced theory of mind performance in 5 to 12 year olds

scientific article published on 10 February 2009

A longitudinal twin study of the association between childhood autistic traits and psychotic experiences in adolescence

scientific article published on 22 July 2015

A multimodal approach to emotion recognition ability in autism spectrum disorders.

scientific article published on 18 October 2010

A multivariate twin study of autistic traits in 12-year-olds: testing the fractionable autism triad hypothesis

scientific article published on 7 September 2011

A new test of advanced theory of mind: The "Strange Stories Film Task" captures social processing differences in adults with autism spectrum disorders

scientific article published on 11 March 2017

A prospective longitudinal study of children's theory of mind and adolescent involvement in bullying

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A training study of theory of mind and executive function in children with autistic spectrum disorders

scientific article published in December 2005

A twin study investigating the genetic and environmental aetiologies of parent, teacher and child ratings of autistic-like traits and their overlap

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ADHD symptoms and their neurodevelopmental correlates in children born very preterm

scientific article published on 03 March 2020

Acquired 'theory of mind' impairments following stroke

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Acquired mind-blindness following frontal lobe surgery? A single case study of impaired 'theory of mind' in a patient treated with stereotactic anterior capsulotomy

scientific article published in January 2001

Adaptive behaviour and theory of mind in autism

scientific article published on 01 July 1994

Aetiological relationship between language performance and autistic-like traits in childhood: a twin study.

scientific article published on May 2007

Age-Related Effects on Social Cognition in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Possible Protective Effect on Theory of Mind

scientific article published on 16 October 2020

Aging in autism spectrum disorders: a mini-review

scientific article published on 24 August 2011

Alexithymia in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Its Relationship to Internalising Difficulties, Sensory Modulation and Social Cognition

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An advanced test of theory of mind: understanding of story characters' thoughts and feelings by able autistic, mentally handicapped, and normal children and adults.

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Annotation: current psychological theories of autism: the "theory of mind" account and rival theories

scientific article published on February 1994

Annual Research Review: Looking back to look forward - changes in the concept of autism and implications for future research

scientific article published on 28 January 2020

Annual research review: Towards a developmental neuroscience of atypical social cognition

scientific article published on June 2014

Anxiety and Attentional Bias to Threat in Children at Increased Familial Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder

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Are Social and Communication Difficulties a Risk Factor for the Development of Social Anxiety?

scientific article published on February 2017

Assessing theory of mind nonverbally in those with intellectual disability and ASD: the penny hiding game

scientific article published on 24 September 2014

Association between extreme autistic traits and intellectual disability: insights from a general population twin study

scientific article published in December 2009

Association of autistic-like and internalizing traits during childhood: a longitudinal twin study

scientific article published on 17 May 2010

Associations between theory of mind and conduct problems in autistic and nonautistic youth

scientific article published on 21 July 2020

Auditory discrimination and auditory sensory behaviours in autism spectrum disorders

scientific article published on 21 June 2009

Autism Spectrum Disorders and Other Mental Health Problems: Exploring Etiological Overlaps and Phenotypic Causal Associations

scientific article published on 26 November 2015

Autism and pitch processing splinter skills: a group and subgroup analysis

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Autism screening and diagnosis in low resource settings: Challenges and opportunities to enhance research and services worldwide

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Autism spectrum disorder

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Autism spectrum disorder and psychopathy: shared cognitive underpinnings or double hit?

scientific article published on 3 October 2006

Autism, Asperger syndrome and brain mechanisms for the attribution of mental states to animated shapes

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Autism: beyond "theory of mind".

scientific article published on April 1994

Autism: cognitive deficit or cognitive style?

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Being aware of own performance: how accurately do children with autism spectrum disorder judge own memory performance?

scientific article published on 22 October 2014

Beyond perception: musical representation and on-line processing in autism.

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Brain anatomy and sensorimotor gating in Asperger's syndrome

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Brief report: Selective social anhedonia in high functioning autism

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Brief report: information processing speed is intact in autism but not correlated with measured intelligence

scientific article published on 16 January 2009

Callous-unemotional traits in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder

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Can Neurotypical Individuals Read Autistic Facial Expressions? Atypical Production of Emotional Facial Expressions in Autism Spectrum Disorders

scientific article published on 06 June 2015

Childhood disintegrative disorder and autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review

scientific article published on 13 December 2018

Children with autism do not show sequence effects with auditory stimuli

scientific article published on 3 November 2014

Children's recognition of emotions from vocal cues

scientific article published on 6 June 2012

Cognition in autism: one deficit or many?

scientific article published on January 1, 2003

Cognitive and affective associations with an ecologically valid test of theory of mind across the lifespan

scientific article published on 24 May 2018

Commentary from the DSM-5 Workgroup on Neurodevelopmental Disorders

scientific article published in April 2012

Commentary on "Autism, oxytocin and interoception": Alexithymia, not Autism Spectrum Disorders, is the consequence of interoceptive failure

scientific article published on 17 July 2015

Commentary: 'Camouflaging' in autistic people - reflection on Fombonne (2020)

scientific article published on 02 December 2020

Communicative competence and theory of mind in autism: a test of relevance theory

scientific article published in August 1993

Comparing service use and costs among adolescents with autism spectrum disorders, special needs and typical development.

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Comparison of ICD-10R, DSM-IV-TR and DSM-5 in an adult autism spectrum disorder diagnostic clinic

scientific article published in November 2013

Compensatory strategies below the behavioural surface in autism: a qualitative study

scientific article published on 23 July 2019

Conceptualising compensation in neurodevelopmental disorders: Reflections from autism spectrum disorder

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Conceptualizing and Treating Social Anxiety in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Focus Group Study with Multidisciplinary Professionals

scientific article published on 21 December 2016

Connectivity and the corpus callosum in autism spectrum conditions: insights from comparison of autism and callosal agenesis

scientific article published on January 2011

Criteria, Categories, and Continua: Autism and Related Disorders in DSM-5

scientific article published on June 1, 2011

Debate and argument: how useful is the "PDD" label?

scientific article published in November 1991

Defining the cognitive phenotype of autism.

scientific article published on 26 October 2010

Demand avoidance is not necessarily defiance

scientific article published on 13 June 2018

Demographic and Cognitive Profile of Individuals Seeking a Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Adulthood

scientific article published on 22 August 2016

Detecting changes in naturalistic scenes: contextual inconsistency does not influence spontaneous attention in high-functioning people with autism spectrum disorder

scientific article published in June 2008

Development of the 'Extreme Demand Avoidance Questionnaire' (EDA-Q): preliminary observations on a trait measure for Pathological Demand Avoidance

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Developmental associations between traits of autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a genetically informative, longitudinal twin study

scientific article published on 16 November 2012

Developmental path between language and autistic-like impairments: a twin study

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Diagnosing autism spectrum disorder in community settings using the Development and Well-Being Assessment: validation in a UK population-based twin sample

scientific article published on 15 July 2015

Dimensional or Categorical Approaches to Autism? Both are Needed. A Reply to Nick Chown and Julia Leatherland

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Dimensions of difficulty in children reported to have an autism spectrum diagnosis and features of extreme/'pathological' demand avoidance

scientific article published on 12 October 2017

Diminished social motivation negatively impacts reputation management: autism spectrum disorders as a case in point

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Disentangling the Associations Between Autistic-Like and Internalizing Traits: A Community Based Twin Study

scientific article published on July 1, 2012

Disentangling weak coherence and executive dysfunction: planning drawing in autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

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Distinguishing lies from jokes: theory of mind deficits and discourse interpretation in right hemisphere brain-damaged patients.

scientific article published on March 1998

Do high-functioning people with autism spectrum disorder spontaneously use event knowledge to selectively attend to and remember context-relevant aspects in scenes?

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Editorial: introduction to special section on face processing

scientific article published in October 2004

Enhanced perceptual processing of speech in autism

scientific article published on January 2008

Erratum to: A Clinical Assessment Tool for Advanced Theory of Mind Performance in 5 to 12 Year Olds

scientific article published on 20 February 2010

Event schemas in autism spectrum disorders: the role of theory of mind and weak central coherence

scientific article published in August 2007

Evidence of Reduced Global Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder

scientific article published on 10 February 2016

Evidence that autistic traits show the same etiology in the general population and at the quantitative extremes (5%, 2.5%, and 1%)

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Examining and interpreting the female protective effect against autistic behavior

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Examining the Genetic and Environmental Associations between Autistic Social and Communication Deficits and Psychopathic Callous-Unemotional Traits

scientific article published on September 2015

Executive function deficits in autism spectrum disorders and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: examining profiles across domains and ages

scientific article published on 6 May 2006

Experience of Trauma and PTSD Symptoms in Autistic Adults: Risk of PTSD Development Following DSM-5 and Non-DSM-5 Traumatic Life Events

scientific article published on 22 April 2020

Exploring anxiety symptoms in a large-scale twin study of children with autism spectrum disorders, their co-twins and controls

scientific article published in November 2013

Exploring the 'fractionation' of autism at the cognitive level

scientific article published on 14 October 2013

Exploring the cognitive features in children with autism spectrum disorder, their co-twins, and typically developing children within a population-based sample.

scientific article published on 24 November 2014

Exploring the cognitive phenotype of autism: weak "central coherence" in parents and siblings of children with autism: I. Experimental tests

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Exploring the cognitive phenotype of autism: weak "central coherence" in parents and siblings of children with autism: II. Real-life skills and preferences

scientific article published in March 2001

Exploring the cognitive, emotional and sensory correlates of social anxiety in autistic and neurotypical adolescents

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Exploring the neurocognitive correlates of challenging behaviours in young people with autism spectrum disorder

scientific article published on 05 October 2018

Exploring the relation between prenatal and neonatal complications and later autistic-like features in a representative community sample of twins

scientific article published in January 2010

Eye-witness memory and suggestibility in children with Asperger syndrome

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Face processing in autism spectrum disorder re-evaluated through diffusion models

scientific article published on 25 February 2019

Feeling, caring, knowing: different types of empathy deficit in boys with psychopathic tendencies and autism spectrum disorder

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From acoustics to grammar: Perceiving and interpreting grammatical prosody in adolescents with Asperger Syndrome

scholarly article by Coralie Chevallier et al published April 2009 in Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Frontal Lobe Findings in Autism

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Genetic heterogeneity between the three components of the autism spectrum: a twin study

scientific article (publication date: June 2006)

Genetic research into autism

scientific article published in February 2006

Good Test—Retest Reliability for Standard and Advanced False-Belief Tasks across a Wide Range of Abilities

article by Claire Hughes et al published May 2000 in The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Good social skills despite poor theory of mind: exploring compensation in autism spectrum disorder.

scientific article published on 26 March 2018

Good test--retest reliability for standard and advanced false-belief tasks across a wide range of abilities

scientific article published in May 2000

Heritability of Autism Spectrum Disorder in a UK Population-Based Twin Sample

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Heritability of autism spectrum disorders: a meta-analysis of twin studies

scientific article published on 27 December 2015

High "intelligence," low "IQ"? Speed of processing and measured IQ in children with autism.

scientific article published in January 2000

How different are girls and boys above and below the diagnostic threshold for autism spectrum disorders?

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How do Parents Manage Irritability, Challenging Behaviour, Non-Compliance and Anxiety in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders? A Meta-Synthesis

scientific article published on 8 December 2017

How well are DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for ASD represented in standardized diagnostic instruments?

scientific article published on 19 February 2020

Identifying features of 'pathological demand avoidance' using the Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders (DISCO).

scientific article published on 30 July 2015

Impaired comprehension of alternating syntactic constructions in autism

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Individual differences in theory of mind ability in middle childhood and links with verbal ability and autistic traits: a twin study

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Inferring thought and action in motor neurone disease.

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Intact inner speech use in autism spectrum disorder: evidence from a short-term memory task

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Intact theory of mind in TBI with behavioural disturbance

scientific article published in March 2006

Intrinsic excitation-inhibition imbalance affects medial prefrontal cortex differently in autistic men versus women

scientific article published on 04 August 2020

Investigating the association between autistic-like and internalizing traits in a community-based twin sample

scientific article published on June 2009

Is cognitive inflexibility a missing link? The role of cognitive inflexibility, alexithymia and intolerance of uncertainty in externalising and internalising behaviours in young people with autism spectrum disorder

scientific article published on 21 August 2020

Language and communication in autistic disorders

scientific article published on October 1994

Language and traits of autism spectrum conditions: evidence of limited phenotypic and etiological overlap.

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Limited genetic covariance between autistic traits and intelligence: findings from a longitudinal twin study

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Making sense of autism

scientific article published in Nature

Meta-analysis of gray matter abnormalities in autism spectrum disorder: should Asperger disorder be subsumed under a broader umbrella of autistic spectrum disorder?

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Metacognition may be more impaired than mindreading in autism

scholarly article by David M. Williams et al published April 2009 in Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Mid-childhood outcomes of infant siblings at familial high-risk of autism spectrum disorder

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Mind reading: neural mechanisms of theory of mind and self-perspective

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Movement and mind: a functional imaging study of perception and interpretation of complex intentional movement patterns

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Navigating the social world: The role of social competence, peer victimisation and friendship quality in the development of social anxiety in childhood

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Neglected causes of post-traumatic stress disorder

scientific article published on 10 June 2019

Neural bases of Theory of Mind in children with autism spectrum disorders and children with conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits

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Neural self-representation in autistic women and association with 'compensatory camouflaging'

scientific article published on 24 October 2018

Neuroanatomy of Individual Differences in Language in Adult Males with Autism

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Nice and Nasty Theory of Mind in Preschool Children: Nature and Nurture

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No evidence for a fundamental visual motion processing deficit in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders

scientific article published on 17 August 2011

No increase in criminal convictions in Hans Asperger's original cohort

scientific article published in June 2010

No major effect of twinning on autistic traits

scientific article published on 15 July 2011

Normative data and psychometric properties of a farsi translation of the strange stories test

scientific article published on 11 August 2017

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Adults with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder: What Does Self-Report with the OCI-R Tell Us?

scientific article published on 7 February 2015

Orienting Toward Face-Like Stimuli in Early Childhood

scientific article published on 05 October 2015

Origins of Individual Differences in Theory of Mind: From Nature to Nurture?

Origins of individual differences in imitation: links with language, pretend play, and socially insightful behavior in two-year-old twins

scientific article published on March 2007

Origins of individual differences in theory of mind: from nature to nurture?

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Other minds in the brain: a functional imaging study of "theory of mind" in story comprehension

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Parenting Strategies Used by Parents of Children with ASD: Differential Links with Child Problem Behaviour

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Paternal Age Alters Social Development in Offspring

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Pathological Demand Avoidance in a population-based cohort of children with epilepsy: four case studies

scientific article published on 30 August 2014

Pathological demand avoidance: exploring the behavioural profile

scientific article published on 8 October 2013

Performance of children with autism spectrum disorder on advanced theory of mind tasks

scientific article published in September 2004

Phenotypic and genetic overlap between autistic traits at the extremes of the general population

scientific article published on October 2006

Pre-conceptual aspects of self-awareness in autism spectrum disorder: the case of action-monitoring

scientific article published on 22 July 2008

Prenatal and Neonatal Problems Scale

Prevalence and Associated Factors of Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties during COVID-19 Pandemic in Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders

scientific article published on 04 September 2020

Psychosocial Stress and Brain Function in Adolescent Psychopathology

scientific article published on 16 June 2017

Quantifying and exploring camouflaging in men and women with autism

scientific article published on 29 November 2016

Quantifying compensatory strategies in adults with and without diagnosed autism

scientific article published on 12 February 2020

Reading and arithmetic in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders: peaks and dips in attainment.

scientific article published in November 2009

Reading comprehension in autism spectrum disorders: the role of oral language and social functioning.

scientific article published in April 2013

Reading the mind in cartoons and stories: an fMRI study of 'theory of mind' in verbal and nonverbal tasks

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Recent progress in understanding skills and impairments in social cognition

scientific article published on 6 September 2016

Recognising 'social' and 'non-social' emotions in self and others: a study of autism

scientific article published on 14 April 2010

Regression in autism spectrum disorder: Reconciling findings from retrospective and prospective research

scientific article published on 26 November 2018

Relationship between special abilities and autistic-like traits in a large population-based sample of 8-year-olds

scientific article published on 31 March 2009

Relationship between symptom domains in autism spectrum disorders: a population based twin study

scientific article published on 17 April 2009

Representing intentions in self and other: studies of autism and typical development

scientific article published in March 2010

Rethinking the concepts of 'local or global processors': evidence from Williams syndrome, Down syndrome, and Autism Spectrum Disorders

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Revisiting the strange stories: revealing mentalizing impairments in autism

scientific article published on July 2009

Salient social cues are prioritized in autism spectrum disorders despite overall decrease in social attention

scientific article published on July 2013

Sampling the form of inner experience in three adults with Asperger syndrome.

scientific article published in May 1994

Scalar inferences in Autism Spectrum Disorders

scientific article published on September 2010

Severe mood problems in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder.

scientific article published on 22 August 2012

Similarities and Differences in Theory of Mind Responses of Patients With Anorexia Nervosa With and Without Autistic Features

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Social anxiety in adult males with autism spectrum disorders

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Social anxiety in adults with autism: a qualitative study

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Social cognition in frontotemporal dementia and Huntington's disease.

scientific article published in January 2003

Social cognition in williams syndrome: genotype/phenotype insights from partial deletion patients

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Social competence in newly diagnosed pediatric brain tumor patients

scientific article published on 04 November 2019

Some childhood autistic traits are associated with psychotic experiences in early adolescence

scientific article published on June 7, 2012

Specificity of executive function and theory of mind performance in relation to attention-deficit/hyperactivity symptoms in autism spectrum disorders

scientific article published on 9 November 2017

Strong genetic influences on the stability of autistic traits in childhood

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Studying weak central coherence at low levels: children with autism do not succumb to visual illusions. A research note

scientific article published in October 1996

Supporting the weight of the elephant in the room: Technical intelligence propped up by social cognition and language

scientific article published on 10 August 2020

The Mental and Physical Health of Older Adults With a Genetic Predisposition for Autism

scientific article published on 11 February 2020

The Structure of Social Cognition: In(ter)dependence of Sociocognitive Processes

scientific article published on 21 September 2016

The Weak Coherence Account: Detail-focused Cognitive Style in Autism Spectrum Disorders

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The association between social cognition and executive functioning and symptoms of anxiety and depression in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders.

scientific article published on 12 March 2014

The association between theory of mind, executive function, and the symptoms of autism spectrum disorder

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The beautiful otherness of the autistic mind

scientific article published in May 2009

The genetic relationship between individual differences in social and nonsocial behaviours characteristic of autism

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The getting of wisdom: theory of mind in old age.

scientific article published in March 1998

The mental and physical health profiles of older adults who endorse elevated autistic traits

scientific article published on 05 August 2020

The nature of covariation between autistic traits and clumsiness: a twin study in a general population sample

scientific article published in December 2011

The neuroanatomy of autism: a voxel-based whole brain analysis of structural scans

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The neuropsychology of autism

scientific article published on August 1996

The neuropsychology of male adults with high-functioning autism or asperger syndrome

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The persistence and stability of psychiatric problems in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders.

scientific article published on 31 August 2012

The relationship between vocabulary, grammar, and false belief task performance in children with autistic spectrum disorders and children with moderate learning difficulties

scientific article published in April 2005

The structure of language abilities at 4 years: a twin study

scientific article published in September 2002

The value of teaching increases with tool complexity in cumulative cultural evolution

scientific article published on 18 November 2020

The ‘Fractionable Autism Triad’: A Review of Evidence from Behavioural, Genetic, Cognitive and Neural Research

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Theory of Mind and Self-Consciousness: What Is It Like to Be Autistic?

journal article from 'Mind and Language' published in 1999

Theory of mind and the right cerebral hemisphere: refining the scope of impairment

scientific article published in May 2006

Theory of mind and the self

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Theory of mind as a predictor of maternal sensitivity in women with severe mental illness

scientific article published on 16 March 2016

Time perception in autism spectrum disorders

Time to give up on a single explanation for autism

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Traumatic life experiences and post‐traumatic stress symptoms in middle‐aged and older adults with and without autistic traits

scientific article published in 2022

Unsupervised data-driven stratification of mentalizing heterogeneity in autism

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Variety is not the spice of life for people with autism spectrum disorders: frequency ratings of central, variable and inappropriate aspects of common real-life events

scientific article published in June 2010

Wechsler IQ profile and theory of mind in autism: a research note

scientific article published in November 1994

What aspects of autism predispose to talent?

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What causes internalising traits and autistic traits to co-occur in adolescence? A community-based twin study

scientific article published in May 2014

What did I say? Versus what did I think? Attributing false beliefs to self amongst children with and without autism

scientific article published on 10 February 2009

What's in a voice? Prosody as a test case for the Theory of Mind account of autism

scientific article published on 4 December 2010

When seeing depends on knowing: adults with Autism Spectrum Conditions show diminished top-down processes in the visual perception of degraded faces but not degraded objects

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Why are savant skills and special talents associated with autism?

scholarly article by Francesca Happé published October 2018 in World Psychiatry

[Epidemiology of schoolchildren's cognitive development in Jequié, Bahia State, Brazil: assessment procedures and general results]

scientific article published on 01 May 2002

‘Theory of mind’ in anorexia nervosa

scholarly article by Kate Tchanturia et al published 21 October 2004 in European Eating Disorders Review