*Reza Kiani, MD, MRCPsych Specialist Registrar/Honorary Lecturer in Psychiatry of Learning Disability, and Honorary Specialist Registrar, National Deaf Services. Leicester Frith Hospital, Leicester, UK Tel: 0116 225 5273 Fax: 0116 225 5272 email: [email protected] Satheesh Kumar Gangadharan, MD, MRCPsych Consultant in Psychiatry of Learning Disability, Leicester Frith Hospital, Leicester, UK T...

Eye movements have been recently recorded in participants watching animated triangles in short movies that normally evoke mentalizing (Frith-Happé animations). Authors have found systematic differences in oculomotor behaviour according to the degree of mental state attribution to these triangles: Participants made longer fixations and looked longer at intentional triangles than at triangles mov...

keeping in mind the work of Frith and Frith (chapter 3) and Schaal, Ijspeert, and Billard (chapter 9), which raises concerns about the generalization of efficient computational models of social interactions to novel contexts. In sum, there have been tremendous advances in our understanding of the links between the mind, brain, and behavior over the past decade, but people generally have been co...

Autism is a disorder characterized by severe impairments in social and communicative development, and by abnormalities in flexible behavior and imaginative thinking (American Psychiatric Association, 1987). In addition, these symptoms often have an onset in the first 3 years of life. The social and communicative abnormalities have recently been conceptualized as the result of abnormalities in t...

In the decade since the last edition of Understanding Other Minds , the number of papers that use human neuroimaging tools to investigate the neural basis of theory of mind (ToM) has exploded from four (described in Frith & Frith’s 2000 chapter) to, as of 2013, well over 400. Studying ToM with neuroimaging works . Unlike many aspects of higher-level cognition, which tend to produce small and hi...

This paper concerns the discourse features of verbal hallucinations and negative symptoms of schizophrenia. A total of 46 schizophrenics, varying in verbal hallucination and in negative symptoms status, and 22 controls were tested on the Reporter Test. The frequency with which they issued inadequate instructions, attempted to repair the inadequacies, and the success of repairs were compared. We...