Theory of own mind in autism

Williams, David M.

doi:10.1177/1362361310366314

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“…Similarly, in this paper, the only finding we failed to replicate was atypical memory performance in individuals with ASD on the recall test (the only results in the paper that in any way indicated action monitoring is impaired in ASD). As such, it is argued that this study, and the enactment effect literature in general, provides support for theories that suggest action monitoring should remain unimpaired in individuals with ASD (e.g., Lind, 2010;Williams, 2010).…”

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confidence: 77%

Online Action Monitoring and Memory for Self-Performed Actions in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Grainger

Williams

Lind

2013

J Autism Dev Disord

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This study explored whether individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience difficulties with action monitoring. Two experimental tasks examined whether adults with ASD are able to monitor their own actions online, and whether they also show a typical enactment effects in memory (enhanced memory for actions they have performed compared to actions they have observed being performed). Individuals with ASD and comparison participants showed a similar pattern of performance on both tasks. In a task which required individuals to distinguish person-caused from computer-caused changes in phenomenology both groups found it easier to monitor their own actions compared to those of an experimenter. Both groups also showed typical enactment effects. Despite recent suggestions to the contrary, these results support suggestions that action monitoring is unimpaired in ASD

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 77%

Online Action Monitoring and Memory for Self-Performed Actions in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Grainger

Williams

Lind

2013

J Autism Dev Disord

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“…Thus, arguably, the results from the above studies do not necessarily show that metacognition is impaired in ASD, because these tasks require inferences to be drawn about past mental states (but see Williams, 2010, for a counter-argument).…”

Section: Metacognition In Autism Spectrum Disordermentioning

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Metacognition, metamemory, and mindreading in high-functioning adults with autism spectrum disorder.

Grainger¹,

Williams²,

Lind³

2014

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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“…On average, across studies involving a sum total of 239 individuals with ASD and 240 comparison participants, memory for self-performed actions was 10% better than memory for observed actions among individuals with ASD, and 11% better among comparison participants (a negligible difference between groups; Cohen's d = 0.11). This suggests strongly that individuals with ASD are able to monitor their own actions and that this monitoring enhances memory in a typical manner (see Williams, 2010). This pattern of impaired episodic memory in ASD, but intact action monitoring ability, supports the suggestion that individuals with ASD demonstrate selective impairments in self-awareness (see e.g., Williams, 2010), demonstrating typical physical self-awareness (e.g., actionmonitoring ability) but impairments in mental self-awareness (e.g., episodic memory) .…”

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Recognition memory and source memory in autism spectrum disorder: A study of the intention superiority and enactment effects

Grainger

Williams

Lind

2016

Autism

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It is well established that neurotypical individuals generally show better memory for actions they have performed than actions they have observed others perform or merely read about, a so-called "enactment effect". Strikingly, research has also shown that neurotypical individuals demonstrate superior memory for actions they intend to perform in the future (but have not yet performed), an effect commonly known as the "intention superiority effect".Although the enactment effect has been studied among people with ASD, the current study is the first to investigate the intention superiority effect in this disorder. This is surprising given the potential importance this issue has for general theory development, as well as for clinical practice. As such, this study aimed to assess the intention superiority and enactment effects in twenty-two children with ASD, and 20 IQ/age-matched neurotypical children. The results showed that children with ASD demonstrated not only undiminished enactment effects in recognition and source memory, but also (surprisingly for some theories) typical intention superiority effects. The implications of these results for theory, as well as clinical practice, are discussed.

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Theory of own mind in autism

Cited by 142 publications

References 71 publications

Online Action Monitoring and Memory for Self-Performed Actions in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Online Action Monitoring and Memory for Self-Performed Actions in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Metacognition, metamemory, and mindreading in high-functioning adults with autism spectrum disorder.

Recognition memory and source memory in autism spectrum disorder: A study of the intention superiority and enactment effects

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