Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center and University of Massachusetts.
Int Rev Psychiatry. 1999 Nov;11(4):325-34. doi: 10.1080/09540269974203.
This paper surveys current research on the social and communicative impairments in autism. In diagnostic schemes, the criteria for identifying autism in these domains include overlapping features. One approach to interpreting this overlap is to consider that social and communicative impairments reflect the same underlying cognitive deficit, referred to as the 'theory of mind' hypothesis of autism. On this view autism involves primary difficulties in identifying mental states in other people, and in interpreting behavior and action in relation to a person's mental state. Studies on the relationship between social behavior, communicative functioning, and theory of mind in children with autism are reviewed, emphasizing the connections between these areas of impairment that are central to the definition of the autistic syndrome.
本文调查了自闭症患者在社交和沟通方面的障碍的当前研究。在诊断方案中,确定这些领域自闭症的标准包括重叠的特征。解释这种重叠的一种方法是认为社交和沟通障碍反映了相同的潜在认知缺陷,这被称为自闭症的“心理理论”假说。根据这种观点,自闭症主要涉及在其他人身上识别心理状态的困难,以及根据一个人的心理状态解释行为和动作。本文回顾了自闭症儿童社会行为、沟通功能和心理理论之间关系的研究,强调了这些受损领域之间的联系,这些联系是自闭症综合征定义的核心。