Background: New research suggests that, rather than representing a core feature of autism
spectrum disorder (ASD), emotional processing difficulties reflect co-occurring alexithymia …

Mentalizing is an aspect of social cognition that is garnering increased interest. Although a
wide variety of experimental tasks are available to measure mentalizing abilities in adults …

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive review of the burgeoning literature on
theory of mind (TOM) after the preschool years and the first to integrate this literature with …

Previous research has shown that reading award-winning literary fiction leads to increases
in performance on tests of theory of mind (Kidd & Castano, 2013). Here, we extend this …

Real‐life social processing abilities of adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) can be
hard to capture in lab‐based experimental tasks. A novel measure of social cognition, the …

Abstract This study of 8-16-year-olds was designed to test the hypothesis that reading
comprehension impairments are part of the social communication phenotype for many …

Multifaceted and idiosyncratic aberrancies in social cognition characterize autism spectrum
disorders (ASDs). To advance understanding of underlying neural mechanisms, we …

Individuals affected by autism spectrum conditions (ASC) are considerably heterogeneous.
Novel approaches are needed to parse this heterogeneity to enhance precision in clinical …

Since gender differences in the symptomatology of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are not
well understood, the current study examines the communicative skills of males and females …

In his first description of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), Kanner emphasized emotional
impairments by characterizing children with ASD as indifferent to other people, self …