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Mentalizing and Autism: Laughter and Lies| title | Mentalizing and Autism: Laughter and Lies |
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| start_date | 2023/06/26 |
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| schedule | 15h15 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | Room B10 |
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| summary | Mentalizing, the propensity to represent alternative mental states to predict and understand behaviour, is pervasive in everyday life and has long been proposed as the cognitive ability affected in autism. I will present a series of studies that ask whether mentalizing difficulties are able to account for the specific pattern of strengths and weaknesses seen in autism across a range of abilities. But I'll also consider an alternative explanation for some of these results, the double empathy problem, and address the question of whether mentalizing can be modulated through the social environment, raising the possibility of finding ways to make it easier to be autistic. |
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| responsibles | Allen |
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| submitted | published | | 2023/06/21 12:20 UTC |
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