Frith U, Happé F
MRC Cognitive Development Unit, London, UK.
Cognition. 1994 Apr-Jun;50(1-3):115-32. doi: 10.1016/0010-0277(94)90024-8.
The theory of mind account of autism has been remarkably successful in making specific predictions about the impairments in socialization, imagination and communication shown by people with autism. It cannot, however, explain either the non-triad features of autism, or earlier experimental findings of abnormal assets and deficits on non-social tasks. These unexplained aspects of autism, and the existence of autistic individuals who consistently pass false belief tasks, suggest that it may be necessary to postulate an additional cognitive abnormality. One possible abnormality-weak central coherence--is discussed, and preliminary evidence for this theory is presented.
自闭症的心理理论在对自闭症患者所表现出的社交、想象和沟通障碍做出具体预测方面取得了显著成功。然而，它既无法解释自闭症的非三特征，也无法解释早期关于非社交任务中异常优势和缺陷的实验结果。自闭症这些无法解释的方面，以及持续通过错误信念任务的自闭症个体的存在，表明可能有必要假定一种额外的认知异常。本文讨论了一种可能的异常——弱中央统合，并给出了该理论的初步证据。
