@article{Pillai20142430,
title = {Using other minds as a window onto the world: Guessing what happened from clues in behaviour},
author = {D Pillai and E Sheppard and D Ropar and L Marsh and A Pearson and P Mitchell},
url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84912053354&doi=10.1007%2fs10803-014-2106-x&partnerID=40&md5=c3396f6f468e37e253c657f998993859},
doi = {10.1007/s10803-014-2106-x},
issn = {01623257},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
journal = {Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders},
volume = {44},
number = {10},
pages = {2430-2439},
publisher = {Springer New York LLC},
abstract = {It has been proposed that mentalising involves retrodicting as well as predicting behaviour, by inferring previous mental states of a target. This study investigated whether retrodiction is impaired in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Participants watched videos of real people reacting to the researcher behaving in one of four possible ways. Their task was to decide which of these four ‘‘scenarios’’ each person responded to. Participants’ eye movements were recorded. Participants with ASD were poorer than comparison participants at identifying the scenario to which people in the videos were responding. There were no group differences in time spent looking at the eyes or mouth. The findings imply those with ASD are impaired in using mentalising skills for retrodiction. © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014.},
note = {cited By 17},
keywords = {Adolescent, Adult, Article, Autism, Child Development Disorders, Children, Clinical Article, Cognition, Controlled Study, Eye Movement, Eye Tracking, Facial Expression, Gaze, Human, Intelligence Quotient, Male, Measurement Accuracy, Mouth, Pathophysiology, Pervasive, Physiology, Psychological Aspect, Psychology, Retrodiction, Task Performance, Theory of Mind, Verbal Communication, Video Recording, Videotape Recording, Young Adult},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}

@article{Assaf2013321,
title = {Mentalizing and motivation neural function during social interactions in autism spectrum disorders},
author = {M Assaf and C J Hyatt and C G Wong and M R Johnson and R T Schultz and T Hendler and G D Pearlson},
url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84885394367&doi=10.1016%2fj.nicl.2013.09.005&partnerID=40&md5=b63630c997b658167792266e40e855b6},
doi = {10.1016/j.nicl.2013.09.005},
issn = {22131582},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-01-01},
journal = {NeuroImage: Clinical},
volume = {3},
pages = {321-331},
abstract = {Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) are characterized by core deficits in social functions. Two theories have been suggested to explain these deficits: mind-blindness theory posits impaired mentalizing processes (i.e. decreased ability for establishing a representation of others' state of mind), while social motivation theory proposes that diminished reward value for social information leads to reduced social attention, social interactions, and social learning. Mentalizing and motivation are integral to typical social interactions, and neuroimaging evidence points to independent brain networks that support these processes in healthy individuals. However, the simultaneous function of these networks has not been explored in individuals with ASDs. We used a social, interactive fMRI task, the Domino game, to explore mentalizing- and motivation-related brain activation during a well-defined interval where participants respond to rewards or punishments (i.e. motivation) and concurrently process information about their opponent's potential next actions (i.e. mentalizing). Thirteen individuals with high-functioning ASDs, ages 12-24, and 14 healthy controls played fMRI Domino games against a computer-opponent and separately, what they were led to believe was a human-opponent. Results showed that while individuals with ASDs understood the game rules and played similarly to controls, they showed diminished neural activity during the human-opponent runs only (i.e. in a social context) in bilateral middle temporal gyrus (MTG) during mentalizing and right Nucleus Accumbens (NAcc) during reward-related motivation (Pcluster < 0.05 FWE). Importantly, deficits were not observed in these areas when playing against a computer-opponent or in areas related to motor and visual processes. These results demonstrate that while MTG and NAcc, which are critical structures in the mentalizing and motivation networks, respectively, activate normally in a non-social context, they fail to respond in an otherwise identical social context in ASD compared to controls. We discuss implications to both the mind-blindness and social motivation theories of ASD and the importance of social context in research and treatment protocols. © 2013 The Authors.},
note = {cited By 28},
keywords = {Adolescent, Adult, Article, Autism, Brain Function, Children, Computer, Controlled Study, Female, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Games, Groups by Age, Human, Major Clinical Study, Male, Mental Capacity, Middle Temporal Gyrus, Motivation, Motor Performance, Nerve Cell, Nerve Function, Nucleus Accumbens, Priority Journal, Punishment, Reward, School Child, Social Cognition, Social Environment, Social Interactions, Task Performance, Theory of Mind, Vision},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}