The Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ): Evidence from Asperger Syndrome/High-Functioning Autism, Malesand Females, Scientists and Mathematicians
- S. Baron-Cohen, S. Wheelwright, Richard Skinner, J. Martin, E. Clubley
- PsychologyJournal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
- 1 February 2001
The Autism-Spectrum Quotient is a valuable instrument for rapidly quantifying where any given individual is situated on the continuum from autism to normality, and its potential for screening for autism spectrum conditions in adults of normal intelligence remains to be fully explored.
The "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" Test revised version: a study with normal adults, and adults with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism.
- S. Baron-Cohen, S. Wheelwright, J. Hill, Y. Raste, I. Plumb
- Psychology, MedicineJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and…
- 1 February 2001
The Revised Eyes Test has improved power to detect subtle individual differences in social sensitivity and was inversely correlated with the Autism Spectrum Quotient (the AQ), a measure of autistic traits in adults of normal intelligence.
Mindblindness: An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind
- S. Baron-Cohen
- Psychology, Philosophy
- 1 February 1997
Mindblindness and mindreading evolutionary psychology and social chess mindreading - nature's choice developing mindreading - the four steps autism and mindblindness how brains read minds the…
The Empathy Quotient: An Investigation of Adults with Asperger Syndrome or High Functioning Autism, and Normal Sex Differences
- S. Baron-Cohen, S. Wheelwright
- PsychologyJournal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
- 1 April 2004
The EQ reveals both a sex difference in empathy in the general population and an empathy deficit in Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism adults, who are reported clinically to have difficulties in empathy.
Does the autistic child have a “theory of mind” ?
- S. Baron-Cohen, A. Leslie, U. Frith
- PsychologyCognition
- 1 October 1985
The extreme male brain theory of autism
- S. Baron-Cohen
- Psychology, PhilosophyTrends in Cognitive Sciences
- 1 June 2002
Gaze Perception Triggers Reflexive Visuospatial Orienting
- J. Driver, G. Davis, P. Ricciardelli, P. Kidd, E. Maxwell, S. Baron-Cohen
- Psychology
- 1 October 1999
This paper seeks to bring together two previously separate research traditions: research on spatial orienting within the visual cueing paradigm and research into social cognition, addressing our…
Another advanced test of theory of mind: evidence from very high functioning adults with autism or asperger syndrome.
- S. Baron-Cohen, T. Jolliffe, C. Mortimore, M. Robertson
- Psychology, MedicineJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and…
- 1 October 1997
Very high functioning adults with autism or Asperger Syndrome are reported on an adult test of theory of mind ability, providing evidence for subtle mindreading deficits in very high functioning individuals on the autistic continuum.
Frontal Lobe Contributions to Theory of Mind
- V. Stone, S. Baron-Cohen, R. Knight
- Psychology, BiologyJournal of Cognitive Neuroscience
- 1 September 1998
Patients with bilateral damage to orbito-frontal cortex and unilateral damage in left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex performed similarly to individuals with Asperger's syndrome, performing well on simpler tests and showing deficits on tasks requiring more subtle social reasoning, such as the ability to recognize a faux pas.
The autistic child's theory of mind: a case of specific developmental delay.
- S. Baron-Cohen
- PsychologyJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and…
- 1 March 1989
The present study examines the 20% of autistic children who have a theory of mind at the lowest level, and tests their ability to use a theoryOf mind at higher levels (i.e. second-order belief attribution).
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