Young children's difficulty to understand visual ambiguitySummary: Little is known about how and when the phenomenon of reversing ambiguous figures develops. Rock, Gopnik and Hall (1994) found that 3- and 4-year-olds never reverse when presented with an ...
The Neuropsychology of AutismAbstract: Autism is a severe, static developmental disorder characterised by social and communicative deficits as well as by stereotyped, restricted behaviour patterns beginning within the first three years of life. Research ...
About the Specificity of a Theory of Mind Deficit in AutismSummary:Objectives: In order to test the hypothesis that a theory of mind deficit is specific for autism, the present study presents the first replication of the Sally-Anne test (Baron-Cohen, ...
Abstract. We investigated theory of mind (ToM) deficits in Alzheimer‘s disease (AD) and its possible connection to autobiographical memory (ABM). Patients and matched controls were evaluated and compared using a video-based ToM test, an autobiographical ...
Abstract. Patients suffering from schizophrenia typically show difficulty comprehending proverbs. This deficit has been linked to social and neurocognitive domains, such as theory of mind (TOM) and, more recently, ...
Abstract. Research on the neural mechanisms underlying Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS) has mostly concentrated on abnormalities in basal ganglia circuits. Recent alternative accounts, however, focused more on ...
Social cognition and suicidality: A reviewAbstract. Psychiatric and neurological disorders are associated with increased suicide risk. A lack of social integration and support as well as interpersonal conflicts and ...
Abstract: Communication disorders following traumatic brain injury have been attributed to social-cognitive dysfunctions. However, this relationship is not always clearly demonstrated in empirical research. This ...
A Gap that Needs to be Closed: The Assessment of Social-Cognitive Abilities in German-Speaking Memory ClinicsAbstract: The assessment of social-cognitive abilities can contribute to diagnosing cognitive disorders. ...
Relevance and results of Theory of Mind research for autism and other psychiatric disordersSummary:Objectives: Disorders of the autistic spectrum are basically characterised by a triad of symptoms: dysfunction of social interaction, communication ...
Neuropsychological models of autism spectrum disorders – behavioral evidence and functional imagingObjective: To review neuropsychological models of theory of mind (ToM), executive functions (EF), and central coherence (CC) as framework for cognitive ...
Self-report and parental report of empathy in adolescents with autismObjective: A deficit in empathy has repeatedly been described as a central feature of autistic disorders. However, little is known about how adolescents with autism evaluate their own ...
Evaluation of the Freiburg TOMTASS: a theory-of-mind based social skills group training for children and adolescents with a high-functioning autism spectrum disorderAbstract. In recent years several specific programs have been developed for enhancing ...
Zusammenfassung. Die vorliegende Arbeit legt eine neurophysiologisch fundierte Systematik der Komponenten des Konstruktes mentaler Repräsentationen wichtiger Anderer und des eigenen Selbst vor. Hierbei werden auf zwei Ebenen je drei Forschungsfelder ...
Zusammenfassung. Die Schwierigkeit dreijähriger Kinder zu verstehen, dass das Aussehen in bestimmten Fällen von der Realität abweichen kann (etwa bei optischen Täuschungen), wird in der Theory of Mind-Literatur auf ein metarepräsentationales Defizit ...
Person perception and social cognitionHuman social perception, communication, and interaction all require the efficient analysis and representation of person-related information. Faces or voices convey a large variety of socially relevant information, ...
Zusammenfassung. Eine Reihe neuerer Untersuchungen zur Beziehung zwischen der Entwicklung der kindlichen “theory of mind“ (TOM) und inhibitorischer Fähigkeiten weisen auf einen engen Zusammenhang beider Konstrukte hin, der selbst nach Kontrolle ...
Language and theory of mind: A longitudinal study of three- to four-year-oldsAbstract. This longitudinal study investigated the causal relation between language and theory of mind by taking into account the contribution of working memory measures. ...
Validation of the “Theory of Mind” ScaleAbstract. This study investigated the validity of Wellman and Liu’s (2004) Theory-of-Mind Scale in a German translation (Hofer & Aschersleben, 2004), testing a sample of N = 107 German children aged 3 to 5. Our ...
Zusammenfassung. Die entwicklungspsychologische Forschung beschäftigt sich zunehmend mit der Bedeutung von frühkindlicher Handlungswahrnehmung und -kontrolle für die spätere Entwicklung sozial-kognitiver Fähigkeiten. Dabei ist insbesondere die Frage von ...Early action perception and Theory of Mind: From an understanding of goal-directed action to a mentalistic understanding of human actionAbstract. Research in developmental psychology is focusing increasingly on the impact of infants’ early action ...