Exploring the building blocks of social cognition: Spontaneous agency perception and visual perspective taking in autism

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 564-571

  Zwickel, Jan ^a   White, Sarah J ^b   Coniston, Devorah ^b   Senju, Atsushi ^c   Frith, Uta ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Mental state; Social cognition; Theory of mind; Triangle animations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISION;

ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; COGNITION DISORDERS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 78650711824     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsq088     Document Type: Article

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