Universität zu Köln

Schwarzkopf, Sarah, Schilbach, Leonhard ORCID: 0000-0001-5547-8309, Vogeley, Kai and Timmermans, Bert ORCID: 0000-0002-0404-8912 (2014). Making it explicit makes a difference: Evidence for a dissociation of spontaneous and intentional level 1 perspective taking in high-functioning autism. Cognition, 131 (3). S. 345 - 355. AMSTERDAM: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV. ISSN 1873-7838

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Abstract

The ability of perspective taking is a fundamental aspect of social cognition. The ability to decide, what another person can or cannot see is referred to as level 1 perspective taking. This is thought to be a process that we can make use of intentionally, but which also takes place spontaneously. Autism is characterized by impairments of social interaction, which are thought to be related to deficits in implicit rather than explicit perspective taking. In order to assess both levels of processing with regard to perspective taking, we employed an established task in patients and controls. Our results demonstrate that both groups engage in spontaneous level 1 perspective taking. In contrast to controls, however, patients reacted more slowly if they had to verify the other's as compared to their own perspective, which shows that participants with high-functioning autism have selective difficulties in explicit, but not implicit, level 1 perspective taking. These findings demonstrate that while spontaneous level 1 perspective taking appears to be intact in autism, this ability is impaired in patients when used explicitly. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Schwarzkopf, Sarah UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Schilbach, Leonhard UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-5547-8309 UNSPECIFIED Vogeley, Kai UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Timmermans, Bert UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-0404-8912 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-437246
DOI:	10.1016/j.cognition.2014.02.003
Journal or Publication Title:	Cognition
Volume:	131
Number:	3
Page Range:	S. 345 - 355
Date:	2014
Publisher:	ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Place of Publication:	AMSTERDAM
ISSN:	1873-7838
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language ASPERGER-SYNDROME; SPECTRUM DISORDER; VISUAL-PERCEPTION; FALSE BELIEF; ATTENTION; ADULTS; CHILDREN; OTHERS; SELF; REPRESENTATION Multiple languages Psychology, Experimental Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/43724