Theory of Mind References

Theory of Mind References

Clinical studies

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3.Adler N, Nadler B, Eviatar Z, Shamay-Tsoory SG. The relationship between theory of mind and autobiographical memory in high-functioning autism and Asperger syndrome. Psychiatry Res 2010; 178(1): 214-216.

4.Assaf M, Jagannathan K, Calhoun VD, Miller L, Stevens MC, Sahl R et al. Abnormal functional connectivity of default mode sub-networks in autism spectrum disorder patients. Neuroimage 2010; 53(1): 247-256.

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6.Baron-Cohen S. The autistic child's theory of mind: a case of specific developmental delay. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 1989; 30(2): 285-297.

7.Baron-Cohen S. The development of a theory of mind in autism: deviance and delay? Psychiatr Clin North Am 1991; 14(1): 33-51.

8.Baron-Cohen S. Out of sight or out of mind? Another look at deception in autism. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 1992; 33(7): 1141-1155.

9.Baron-Cohen S, Jolliffe T, Mortimore C, Robertson M. Another advanced test of theory of mind: evidence from very high functioning adults with autism or asperger syndrome. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 1997; 38(7): 813-822.

10.Baron-Cohen S, O'Riordan M, Stone V, Jones R, Plaisted K. Recognition of faux pas by normally developing children and children with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism. J Autism Dev Disord 1999; 29(5): 407-418.

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13.Bauminger N, Kasari C. Brief report: theory of mind in high-functioning children with autism. J Autism Dev Disord 1999; 29(1): 81-86.

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16.Beaumont RB, Sofronoff K. A new computerised advanced theory of mind measure for children with Asperger syndrome: the ATOMIC. J Autism Dev Disord 2008; 38(2): 249-260.

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18.Begeer S, Rieffe C, Terwogt MM, Stockmann L. Theory of Mind--based action in children from the autism spectrum. J Autism Dev Disord 2003; 33(5): 479-487.

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20.Blackshaw AJ, Kinderman P, Hare DJ, Hatton C. Theory of mind, causal attribution and paranoia in Asperger syndrome. Autism 2001; 5(2): 147-163.

21.Bowler DM. "Theory of mind" in Asperger's syndrome. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 1992; 33(5): 877-893.

22.Brent E, Rios P, Happe F, Charman T. Performance of children with autism spectrum disorder on advanced theory of mind tasks. Autism 2004; 8(3): 283-299.

23.Brieber S, Neufang S, Bruning N, Kamp-Becker I, Remschmidt H, Herpertz-Dahlmann B et al. Structural brain abnormalities in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder and patients with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 2007; 48(12): 1251-1258.

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25.Buitelaar JK, Swaab H, van der Wees M, Wildschut M, van der Gaag RJ. Neuropsychological impairments and deficits in theory of mind and emotion recognition in a non-autistic boy. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 1996; 5(1): 44-51.

26.Buitelaar JK, van der Wees M. Are deficits in the decoding of affective cues and in mentalizing abilities independent? J Autism Dev Disord 1997; 27(5): 539-556.

27.Buitelaar JK, van der Wees M, Swaab-Barneveld H, van der Gaag RJ. Verbal memory and Performance IQ predict theory of mind and emotion recognition ability in children with autistic spectrum disorders and in psychiatric control children. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 1999; 40(6): 869-881.

28.Buitelaar JK, van der Wees M, Swaab-Barneveld H, van der Gaag RJ. Theory of mind and emotion-recognition functioning in autistic spectrum disorders and in psychiatric control and normal children. Dev Psychopathol 1999; 11(1): 39-58.

29.Buitelaar JK, van Engeland H, de Kogel KH, de Vries H, van Hooff JA. Differences in the structure of social behaviour of autistic children and non-autistic retarded controls. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 1991; 32(6): 995-1015.

30.Burnette CP, Mundy PC, Meyer JA, Sutton SK, Vaughan AE, Charak D. Weak central coherence and its relations to theory of mind and anxiety in autism. J Autism Dev Disord 2005; 35(1): 63-73.

31.Campbell R, Lawrence K, Mandy W, Mitra C, Jeyakuma L, Skuse D. Meanings in motion and faces: developmental associations between the processing of intention from geometrical animations and gaze detection accuracy. Dev Psychopathol 2006; 18(1): 99-118.

32.Capps L, Losh M, Thurber C. "The frog ate the bug and made his mouth sad": narrative competence in children with autism. J Abnorm Child Psychol 2000; 28(2): 193-204.

33.Capps L, Yirmiya N, Sigman M. Understanding of simple and complex emotions in non-retarded children with autism. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 1992; 33(7): 1169-1182.

34.Carpenter M, Pennington BF, Rogers SJ. Understanding of others' intentions in children with autism. J Autism Dev Disord 2001; 31(6): 589-599.

35.Charman T, Baron-Cohen S. Understanding drawings and beliefs: a further test of the metarepresentation theory of autism: a research note. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 1992; 33(6): 1105-1112.

36.Chin HY, Bernard-Opitz V. Teaching conversational skills to children with autism: effect on the development of a theory of mind. J Autism Dev Disord 2000; 30(6): 569-583.

37.Colle L, Baron-Cohen S, Hill J. Do children with autism have a theory of mind? A non-verbal test of autism vs. specific language impairment. J Autism Dev Disord 2007; 37(4): 716-723.

38.Craig JS, Hatton C, Craig FB, Bentall RP. Persecutory beliefs, attributions and theory of mind: comparison of patients with paranoid delusions, Asperger's syndrome and healthy controls. Schizophr Res 2004; 69(1): 29-33.

39.Dahlgren S, Sandberg AD. Referential communication in children with autism spectrum disorder. Autism 2008; 12(4): 335-348.

40.Duverger H, Da Fonseca D, Bailly D, Deruelle C. [Theory of mind in Asperger syndrome]. Encephale 2007; 33(4 Pt 1): 592-597.

41.Dyck MJ, Piek JP, Hay D, Smith L, Hallmayer J. Are abilities abnormally interdependent in children with autism? J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 2006; 35(1): 20-33.

42.Fine C, Lumsden J, Blair RJ. Dissociation between 'theory of mind' and executive functions in a patient with early left amygdala damage. Brain 2001; 124(Pt 2): 287-298.

43.Fisher N, Happe F. A training study of theory of mind and executive function in children with autistic spectrum disorders. J Autism Dev Disord 2005; 35(6): 757-771.

44.Fisher N, Happe F, Dunn J. The relationship between vocabulary, grammar, and false belief task performance in children with autistic spectrum disorders and children with moderate learning difficulties. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 2005; 46(4): 409-419.

45.Garcia-Perez RM, Hobson RP, Lee A. Narrative role-taking in autism. J Autism Dev Disord 2008; 38(1): 156-168.

46.Gendry Meresse I, Zilbovicius M, Boddaert N, Robel L, Philippe A, Sfaello I et al. Autism severity and temporal lobe functional abnormalities. Ann Neurol 2005; 58(3): 466-469.

47.Golan O, Baron-Cohen S, Hill J. The Cambridge Mindreading (CAM) Face-Voice Battery: Testing complex emotion recognition in adults with and without Asperger syndrome. J Autism Dev Disord 2006; 36(2): 169-183.

48.Hadwin J, Baron-Cohen S, Howlin P, Hill K. Does teaching theory of mind have an effect on the ability to develop conversation in children with autism? J Autism Dev Disord 1997; 27(5): 519-537.

49.Hale CM, Tager-Flusberg H. Social communication in children with autism: the relationship between theory of mind and discourse development. Autism 2005; 9(2): 157-178.

50.Hamilton AF, Brindley RM, Frith U. Imitation and action understanding in autistic spectrum disorders: how valid is the hypothesis of a deficit in the mirror neuron system? Neuropsychologia 2007; 45(8): 1859-1868.

51.Happe F, Ehlers S, Fletcher P, Frith U, Johansson M, Gillberg C et al. 'Theory of mind' in the brain. Evidence from a PET scan study of Asperger syndrome. Neuroreport 1996; 8(1): 197-201.

52.Happe FG. Communicative competence and theory of mind in autism: a test of relevance theory. Cognition 1993; 48(2): 101-119.

53.Happe FG. An advanced test of theory of mind: understanding of story characters' thoughts and feelings by able autistic, mentally handicapped, and normal children and adults. J Autism Dev Disord 1994; 24(2): 129-154.

54.Happe FG. The role of age and verbal ability in the theory of mind task performance of subjects with autism. Child Dev 1995; 66(3): 843-855.

55.Harris JM, Best CS, Moffat VJ, Spencer MD, Philip RC, Power MJ et al. Autistic traits and cognitive performance in young people with mild intellectual impairment. J Autism Dev Disord 2008; 38(7): 1241-1249.

56.Heavey L, Phillips W, Baron-Cohen S, Rutter M. The Awkward Moments Test: a naturalistic measure of social understanding in autism. J Autism Dev Disord 2000; 30(3): 225-236.

57.Heerey EA, Capps LM, Keltner D, Kring AM. Understanding teasing: lessons from children with autism. J Abnorm Child Psychol 2005; 33(1): 55-68.

58.Heerey EA, Keltner D, Capps LM. Making sense of self-conscious emotion: linking theory of mind and emotion in children with autism. Emotion 2003; 3(4): 394-400.

59.Hillier A, Allinson L. Beyond expectations: autism, understanding embarrassment, and the relationship with theory of mind. Autism 2002; 6(3): 299-314.

60.Hiraishi H, Hashimoto T, Mori K, Ito H, Harada M. [A preliminary fMRI study of moral judgment task in high functioning autistic children]. No To Hattatsu 2007; 39(5): 360-365.

61.Hutchins TL, Bonazinga LA, Prelock PA, Taylor RS. Beyond false beliefs: the development and psychometric evaluation of the perceptions of children's theory of mind measure-experimental version (PCToMM-E). J Autism Dev Disord 2008; 38(1): 143-155.

62.Ishii R, Gojmerac C, Stuss DT, Gallup GG, Jr., Alexander MP, Chau W et al. MEG analysis of "theory of mind" in emotional vignettes comprehension. Neurol Clin Neurophysiol 2004; 2004: 28.

63.Jarrold C, Butler DW, Cottington EM, Jimenez F. Linking theory of mind and central coherence bias in autism and in the general population. Dev Psychol 2000; 36(1): 126-138.

64.Joseph RM, Tager-Flusberg H. The relationship of theory of mind and executive functions to symptom type and severity in children with autism. Dev Psychopathol 2004; 16(1): 137-155.

65.Kaland N, Callesen K, Moller-Nielsen A, Mortensen EL, Smith L. Performance of children and adolescents with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism on advanced theory of mind tasks. J Autism Dev Disord 2008; 38(6): 1112-1123.

66.Kaland N, Moller-Nielsen A, Callesen K, Mortensen EL, Gottlieb D, Smith L. A new 'advanced' test of theory of mind: evidence from children and adolescents with Asperger syndrome. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 2002; 43(4): 517-528.

67.Kaland N, Smith L, Mortensen EL. Response times of children and adolescents with Asperger syndrome on an 'advanced' test of theory of mind. J Autism Dev Disord 2007; 37(2): 197-209.

68.Kana RK, Keller TA, Cherkassky VL, Minshew NJ, Just MA. Atypical frontal-posterior synchronization of Theory of Mind regions in autism during mental state attribution. Soc Neurosci 2009; 4(2): 135-152.

69.Kleinman J, Marciano PL, Ault RL. Advanced theory of mind in high-functioning adults with autism. J Autism Dev Disord 2001; 31(1): 29-36.

70.Klin A. Attributing social meaning to ambiguous visual stimuli in higher-functioning autism and Asperger syndrome: The Social Attribution Task. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 2000; 41(7): 831-846.

71.Klin A, Volkmar FR, Sparrow SS. Autistic social dysfunction: some limitations of the theory of mind hypothesis. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 1992; 33(5): 861-876.

72.Lee A, Hobson RP. On developing self-concepts: a controlled study of children and adolescents with autism. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 1998; 39(8): 1131-1144.

73.Leslie AM, Mallon R, DiCorcia JA. Transgressors, victims, and cry babies: is basic moral judgment spared in autism? Soc Neurosci 2006; 1(3-4): 270-283.

74.Lewis P, Abbeduto L, Murphy M, Richmond E, Giles N, Bruno L et al. Cognitive, language and social-cognitive skills of individuals with fragile X syndrome with and without autism. J Intellect Disabil Res 2006; 50(Pt 7): 532-545.

75.Lind SE, Bowler DM. Recognition memory, self-other source memory, and theory-of-mind in children with autism spectrum disorder. J Autism Dev Disord 2009; 39(9): 1231-1239.

76.Lind SE, Bowler DM. Delayed self-recognition in children with autism spectrum disorder. J Autism Dev Disord 2009; 39(4): 643-650.

77.Lind SE, Bowler DM. Impaired performance on see-know tasks amongst children with autism: evidence of specific difficulties with theory of mind or domain-general task factors? J Autism Dev Disord 2010; 40(4): 479-484.

78.Loth E, Gomez JC, Happe F. Event schemas in autism spectrum disorders: the role of theory of mind and weak central coherence. J Autism Dev Disord 2008; 38(3): 449-463.

79.Loth E, Happe F, Gomez JC. Variety is not the spice of life for people with autism spectrum disorders: frequency ratings of central, variable and inappropriate aspects of common real-life events. J Autism Dev Disord 2010; 40(6): 730-742.

80.Low J, Goddard E, Melser J. Generativity and imagination in autism spectrum disorder: evidence from individual differences in children's impossible entity drawings. Br J Dev Psychol 2009; 27(Pt 2): 425-444.

81.Mason RA, Williams DL, Kana RK, Minshew N, Just MA. Theory of Mind disruption and recruitment of the right hemisphere during narrative comprehension in autism. Neuropsychologia 2008; 46(1): 269-280.

82.Morgan B, Maybery M, Durkin K. Weak central coherence, poor joint attention, and low verbal ability: independent deficits in early autism. Dev Psychol 2003; 39(4): 646-656.

83.Muris P, Steerneman P, Meesters C, Merckelbach H, Horselenberg R, van den Hogen T et al. The TOM test: a new instrument for assessing theory of mind in normal children and children with pervasive developmental disorders. J Autism Dev Disord 1999; 29(1): 67-80.

84.Murphy D. Theory of mind in Asperger's syndrome, schizophrenia and personality disordered forensic patients. Cogn Neuropsychiatry 2006; 11(2): 99-111.

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90.Ozonoff S, Miller JN. Teaching theory of mind: a new approach to social skills training for individuals with autism. J Autism Dev Disord 1995; 25(4): 415-433.

91.Ozonoff S, Pennington BF, Rogers SJ. Executive function deficits in high-functioning autistic individuals: relationship to theory of mind. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 1991; 32(7): 1081-1105.

92.Ozonoff S, Rogers SJ, Pennington BF. Asperger's syndrome: evidence of an empirical distinction from high-functioning autism. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 1991; 32(7): 1107-1122.

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94.Pellicano E. The development of core cognitive skills in autism: a 3-year prospective study. Child Dev 2010; 81(5): 1400-1416.

95.Pellicano E. Individual differences in executive function and central coherence predict developmental changes in theory of mind in autism. Dev Psychol 2010; 46(2): 530-544.

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97.Peterson CC. Drawing insight from pictures: the development of concepts of false drawing and false belief in children with deafness, normal hearing, and autism. Child Dev 2002; 73(5): 1442-1459.

98.Peterson CC. Mind and body: concepts of human cognition, physiology and false belief in children with autism or typical development. J Autism Dev Disord 2005; 35(4): 487-497.

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100.Peterson CC, Slaughter VP, Paynter J. Social maturity and theory of mind in typically developing children and those on the autism spectrum. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 2007; 48(12): 1243-1250.

101.Peterson CC, Wellman HM, Liu D. Steps in theory-of-mind development for children with deafness or autism. Child Dev 2005; 76(2): 502-517.

102.Pilowsky T, Yirmiya N, Arbelle S, Mozes T. Theory of mind abilities of children with schizophrenia, children with autism, and normally developing children. Schizophr Res 2000; 42(2): 145-155.

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105.Ronald A, Viding E, Happe F, Plomin R. Individual differences in theory of mind ability in middle childhood and links with verbal ability and autistic traits: a twin study. Soc Neurosci 2006; 1(3-4): 412-425.

106.Rutherford MD, Baron-Cohen S, Wheelwright S. Reading the mind in the voice: a study with normal adults and adults with Asperger syndrome and high functioning autism. J Autism Dev Disord 2002; 32(3): 189-194.

107.Rutherford MD, Rogers SJ. Cognitive underpinnings of pretend play in autism. J Autism Dev Disord 2003; 33(3): 289-302.

108.Samson AC, Hegenloh M. Stimulus characteristics affect humor processing in individuals with Asperger syndrome. J Autism Dev Disord 2010; 40(4): 438-447.

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110.Serra M, Loth FL, van Geert PL, Hurkens E, Minderaa RB. Theory of mind in children with 'lesser variants' of autism: a longitudinal study. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 2002; 43(7): 885-900.

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112.Sicotte C, Stemberger RM. Do children with PDDNOS have a theory of mind? J Autism Dev Disord 1999; 29(3): 225-233.

113.Slaughter V, Peterson CC, Mackintosh E. Mind what mother says: narrative input and theory of mind in typical children and those on the autism spectrum. Child Dev 2007; 78(3): 839-858.

114.Sparrevohn R, Howie PM. Theory of mind in children with autistic disorder: evidence of developmental progression and the role of verbal ability. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 1995; 36(2): 249-263.

115.Spek AA, Scholte EM, Van Berckelaer-Onnes IA. Theory of mind in adults with HFA and Asperger syndrome. J Autism Dev Disord 2010; 40(3): 280-289.

116.Steele S, Joseph RM, Tager-Flusberg H. Brief report: developmental change in theory of mind abilities in children with autism. J Autism Dev Disord 2003; 33(4): 461-467.

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