THERE A SOCIAL MODULE - LANGUAGE, FACE PROCESSING, AND THEORY OF MIND IN INDIVIDUALS WITH WILLIAMS-SYNDROME

被引:193
作者
KARMILOFFSMITH, A
KLIMA, E
BELLUGI, U
GRANT, J
BARONCOHEN, S
机构
[1] SALK INST, SAN DIEGO, CA 92186 USA
[2] UNIV CALIF SAN DIEGO, SAN DIEGO, CA 92103 USA
[3] SALK INST BIOL STUDIES, SAN DIEGO, CA USA
[4] UNIV CAMBRIDGE, CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND
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10.1162/jocn.1995.7.2.196
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
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071006 ;
摘要
Many species can respond to the behavior of their conspecifics. Human children, and perhaps some nonhuman primates, also have the capacity to respond to the mental states of their conspecifics, i.e., they have a ''theory of mind.'' On the basis of previous research on the theory-of-mind impairment in people with autism, together with animal models of intentionality, Brothers and Ring (1992) postulated a broad cognitive module whose function is to build representations of other individuals. We evaluate the details of this hypothesis through a series of experiments on language, face processing, and theory of mind carried out with subjects with Williams syndrome, a rare ge genetic neurodevelopmental disorder resulting in an uneven linguisticocognitive profile. The results are discussed in terms of how the comparison of different phenotypes (e.g., Williams syndrome, Down syndrome, autism, and hydrocephaly with associated myelomeningocele) can contribute both to understanding the neuropsychology of social cognition and to current thinking about the purported modularity of the brain.
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页码:196 / 208
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