Hypo- or hyper-mentalizing: It all depends upon what one means by "mentalizing"

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 274-275

  Langdon, Robyn ^a   Brock, Jon ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; AUTISM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GAZE; HUMAN; INTROSPECTION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NOTE; PATERNITY; PATHOGENESIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOSIS; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 46249098127     PISSN: 0140525X     EISSN: 14691825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X08004354     Document Type: Note

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