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| Question | Answer |
| Aim | To authenticate a new, quantitative test for Theory of Mind for more able adults with autism |
| 4 features of photographs in 'eyes task' | 1) 25 2) black and white photos 3) shown for 3 seconds 4) midway along nose to just above the eyebrow. |
| Three Control Tasks | 1) Happe's 'Strange stories' 2) gender recognition 3) basic emotion |
| Adults with Asperger Syndrome and High Functioning Autistism (Experimental group) | 1) n= 16 participants 1) 13M, 3F 2) Mostly self selected - advert in 'Communication' magazine of National Autistic Society (some recruited directly by B-C) |
| Normal adults (Control group) | 1) n=50 2) 25m, 25f 3) Age matched 4) Random sample drawn from pool of volunteers in Cambridge |
| Adults with Tourette's Sydrome (Control group) | 1) n=10 2) 8M, 2F 3) Opportunity sample from a tertiary clinic in London |
| Findings: Eye Tasks | Autistic group: 16.3/25 Normal and Tourette: 20.3-20.4/25 Range of scores were similar Ceiling effect |
| Findings: Strange Stories | Autistic group did much worse than others, showing difficulty with ToM Correlated with Eyes Task scores showing concurrent validity |
| Findings: control tasks | no differences on basic emotion and gender identification tasks |
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