Yes / It has been proposed that mentalising involves retrodicting as well as predicting behaviour,
by inferring previous mental states of a target. This study investigated whether retrodiction is
impaired in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Participants watched videos
of real people reacting to the researcher behaving in one of four possible ways. Their task
was to decide which of these four “scenarios” each person responded to. Participants’ eye
movements were recorded. Participants with ASD were poorer than comparison participants
at identifying the scenario to which people in the videos were responding. There were no
group differences in time spent looking at the eyes or mouth. The findings imply those with
ASD are impaired in using mentalising skills for retrodiction.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/17896 |
| Date | 04 June 2020 |
| Creators | Pillai, D., Sheppard, E., Ropar, D., Marsh, L., Pearson, A., Mitchell, Peter |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, Accepted manuscript |
| Rights | © 2014 Springer. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. The final publication is available at Springer via https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-014-2106-x. |
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