Department of Education, Shiga University, Otsu, Japan
Review
Visual Perspective-Taking and Embodied Self in Autistic Spectrum Disorders
Author(s): Masayuki Watanabe* and Miyuki Endo
A key characteristic associated with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) is impairment in communication and sociability. Such impairments have been attributed exclusively to a deficit in theory of mind; however, this thesis has been widely challenged. People with ASD do not necessarily struggle with all forms of perspective-taking. Although people with ASD perform poorly in explicit visual perspective-taking tasks, they perform no worse than typically developing people do in implicit visual perspective-taking tasks. This study attempted to explain this discrepancy by focusing on the embodied self and self-awareness. This study offered the following supposition for ASD-related weakness in visual perspective-taking: Explicit visual perspective-taking is enabled by the person detaching their embodied representational self from their somatic sensations; people with ASD struggle to accomplis.. View More»
DOI:
10.35248/ 2471-2701.22.9(1).330
