Cognitive theories of autism

By Gnanathusharan Rajendran, Peter Mitchell. 2007

437 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Genetics, Psychiatry and Mental health

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/790881a6ac47a2f39e8c08bf0d388b6d50e83812

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Citations in the corpus

• Using Theory of Mind to represent and take part in social interactions: Comparing individuals with high-functioning autism and typically developing controls (2010, background): “But Rajendran and Mitchell (2007) argued against a dismissal of tests that don’t show differences between ASD and neurotypical individuals.”
• The Empathy Imbalance Hypothesis of Autism: A Theoretical Approach to Cognitive and Emotional Empathy in Autistic Development (2009, background): “Autism researchers have focused on theory of mind deficits, executive dysfunction, weak central coherence, attentional problems, and affective impairments (for reviews, see Hill & Frith, 2004; Rajendran & Mitchell, 2007; Sigman & Capps, 1997).”
• Theory of Mind Abilities and Deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorders (2014, result): “These findings underscore previous conclusions that individuals with HF-ASD have difficulties understanding both others’ and their own minds (Rajendran & Mitchell, 2007).”
• Social Skill Interventions for Youth and Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review (2018, background): “A number of the interventions reviewed may potentially leverage benefits related to social cognition, such as theory of mind (Premack & Woodruff, 1978) and executive functioning (Denckla, 1996; Rajendran & Mitchell, 2007).”
• Inability to activate Rac1-dependent forgetting contributes to behavioral inflexibility in mutants of multiple autism-risk genes (2016, background): “J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 157(2):263–277.”
• Videogames and Young People with Developmental Disorders (2010, background): “They are often reported to have a very literal orientation toward language and symbols that other people interpret as standing for something else (Rajendran & Mitchell, 2007).”
• Vision in autism spectrum disorders. (2009, background): “Joseph & Tanaka, 2003; Riby et al., 2009). A potential criticism of Rutherford et al. (2007a) is that there was no explicit measurement of eye fixations.”