… applying these skills across domains (Happe, 1993) and showing evidence of insightful
social behaviour in everyday life (Frith, Happe, & Siddons. in press). One possible way of …

Ten able adults with autism or Asperger syndrome and 10 normal volunteers were PET
scanned while watching animated sequences. The animations depicted two triangles moving …

We report a functional neuroimaging study with positron emission tomography (PET) in
which six healthy adult volunteers were scanned while watching silent computer-presented …

We argue that there will be no single (genetic or cognitive) cause for the diverse symptoms
defining autism. We present recent evidence of behavioral fractionation of social impairment, …

… The same groups could also be distinguished on verbal tests of coherence (Happé & Booth,
in preparation); despite their inhibition problems, the ADHD group did not make the sorts of …

Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by impaired social and communicative
development, and restricted interests and activities. This article will argue that we can discover …

Research has suggested that the core handicaps of autism result from a specific impairment
in theory of mind (ToM). However, this account has been challenged by the finding that a …

Previous functional imaging studies have explored the brain regions activated by tasks requiring
‘theory of mind’—the attribution of mental states. Tasks used have been primarily verbal…

The ability of normal children and adults to attribute independent mental states to self and
others in order to explain and predict behaviour (“theory of mind”) has been a focus of much …

Human self-consciousness as the metarepresentation of ones own mental states and the so-called
theory of mind (TOM) capacity, which requires the ability to model the mental states of …