Spontaneous theory of mind in autism: are anticipatory gaze and reaction time biases consistent?
Keigo Onda, Rizal Ichwansyah, Keisuke Kawasaki, Jun Egawa, Toshiyuki Someya, Isao Hasegawa · 2024
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Keigo Onda and five co-authors test whether two quiet signs of spontaneous theory of mind agree in the same adults. Theory of mind here means the fast, untaught sense of what a person with a false belief will do next. One sign is anticipatory gaze, where the eyes look ahead. The other is reaction time, how fast a person responds to an object's place. Their 2024 study blends both tests into a single task so the two signs can be compared head to head.
Both signs appeared in healthy adults, and they moved together: strong gaze bias went with strong reaction bias. In adults with autism, both signs differed from the norm. A model using both signs separated autism from healthy adults best of all. The team concludes that the pair taps one shared skill. The combined task may help clinics judge social difficulty in adults with autism.
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| CREATOR | Keigo Onda, Rizal Ichwansyah, Keisuke Kawasaki, Jun Egawa, Toshiyuki Someya, Isao Hasegawa |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 48 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |