UCL podcast: New study provides answer to Asperger’s Syndrome conundrum

'Mindblind Eyes: An Absence of Spontaneous Theory of Mind in Asperger Syndrome?: Science paper. A new study co-led by Professor Uta Frith (UCL Institute of Neuroscience) sheds light on how adults with Asperger's Syndrome successfully negotiate social interaction. Highly intelligent adults with Asperger's Syndrome have difficulties with day-to-day social interaction. These difficulties have been explained by the term 'mindblindness'. This means an inability to explain and predict other people's behaviour on the basis of their psychological motives. The 'mindblindness' theory was first proposed in 1985 by a team of UCL researchers and has now been widely accepted. However, one problem with the theory has since remained.
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