Theory of Mind in Adults with HFA and Asperger Syndrome

摘要

Theory of mind was assessed in 32 adults withHFA, 29 adults with Asperger syndrome and 32 neuro-typical adults. The HFA and Asperger syndrome groupswere impaired in performance of the Strange stories testand the Faux-pas test and reported more theory of mindproblems than the neurotypical adults. The three groups didnot differ in performance of the Eyes test. Furthermore,correlations between the Eyes test and the three othertheory of mind tests were low or absent. Therefore one canquestion the ability of the Eyes test to measure theory ofmind. Of all theory of mind tests used, the self-reportquestionnaire had the largest discriminating power in dif-ferentiating the two disorder groups from the neurotypicalgroup.