Revisiting the strange stories: Revealing mentalizing impairments in autism

Child Development

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1097-1117

  White, Sarah ^a,d   Hill, Elisabeth ^b   Happé, Francesca ^c   Frith, Uta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; WECHSLER SCALES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650634974     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01319.x     Document Type: Article

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