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Why do individuals with autism lack the motivation or capacity to share intentions?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2005

Tony Charman
Tony Charman*
Affiliation:
Behavioural and Brain Sciences Unit, Institute of Child Health, LondonWC1N 1EH, United Kingdomhttp://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/ich/html/academicunits/behav_brain_sci/b_b_s_unit.html
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Abstract

Tomasello et al. highlight how in combination cognitive impairments and affective impairments help explain why individuals with autism do not enter fully into human culture. We query whether the motivational component is a later development in human ontogeny and whether the cognitive level of intention reading is intact in autism. A key question is what neuropsychological impairments underlie this cognitive–affective impairment.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 28 , Issue 5 , October 2005 , pp. 695 - 696
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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