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Mindblind Eyes: An Absence of Spontaneous Theory of Mind in Asperger Syndrome 心を読まない目:アスペルガー症候群における自発的な「心の理論(theory of mind)」の欠如 Export

Science, Vol. 325, No. 5942. (14 August 2009), pp. 883-885.

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Adults with Asperger syndrome can understand mental states such as desires and beliefs (mentalizing) when explicitly prompted to do so, despite having impairments in social communication. We directly tested the hypothesis that such individuals nevertheless fail to mentalize spontaneously. To this end, we used an eye-tracking task that has revealed the spontaneous ability to mentalize in typically developing infants. We showed that, like infants, neurotypical adults' (n = 17 participants) eye movements anticipated an actor's behavior on the basis of her false belief. This was not the case for individuals with Asperger syndrome (n = 19). Thus, these individuals do not attribute mental states spontaneously, but they may be able to do so in explicit tasks through compensatory learning. 10.1126/science.1176170 高機能の自閉症であるアスペルガー症候群の成人は、他者の意図を明示的に理解するよう求められると 推測できる(theory of mind)が、自発的には行わないことが誤信念課題遂行時の眼球運動の記録から 明らかになった。(自閉症の一種であるアスペルガー症候群の成人は、検査場面では他者の意図理解を行うことができるが、教示なしには自発的な他者の意図の推測を行っていないことが明らかとなった。自発的な 他者の意図の推測は、定型発達では2歳頃には既に見られるものであるため、今回の結果は、自閉症者は定型発達者とは異なるやり方で他者の意図を推測する方法を発達していると考えられる。)


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