Using other minds as a window onto the world: Guessing what happened from clues in behaviour

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2430-2439

  Pillai, Dhanya ^a   Sheppard, Elizabeth ^a   Ropar, Danielle ^b   Marsh, Lauren ^b   Pearson, Amy ^b   Mitchell, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eye tracking; Face processing; Mental states; Mentalising; Retrodiction; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; GAZE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MOUTH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETRODICTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FACIAL EXPRESSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; THEORY OF MIND; VIDEORECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; THEORY OF MIND; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84912053354     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-014-2106-x     Document Type: Article

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