Background. Mentalizing deficits are a hallmark of the autism spectrum condition (ASC) and
a potential endophenotype for atypical social cognition in ASC. Differences in performance�…

Siblings of individuals with autism have over 20 times the population risk of autism.
Evidence of comparable, but less marked, cognitive and social communication deficits in�…

BACKGROUND: The broad autism phenotype includes subclinical autistic characteristics
found to have a higher prevalence in unaffected family members of individuals with autism�…

Behavioral studies have shown that individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have
impaired ability to read the mind in the eyes. Although this impairment is central to their�…

Background: In addition to their more clinically evident abnormalities of social cognition,
people with autism spectrum conditions (ASC) manifest perturbations of attention and�…

BACKGROUND: People with autism or Asperger Syndrome (AS) show altered patterns of
brain activity during visual search and emotion recognition tasks. Autism and AS are genetic�…

Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are neurodevelopmental disorders characterised by
impaired social interaction and communication, restricted interests and repetitive�…

Over the last 25years,“mindblindness”(deficits in representing mental states) has been one
of the primary explanations behind the hallmark social-communication difficulties in autism�…

The socio-communicative difficulties of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are
hypothesized to be caused by a specific deficit in the ability to represent one's own and�…

People with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have atypical visual perception of global and
local information. Previous neuroimaging studies have examined the functional anatomy of�…