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Sarah White

Researcher at University College London

Publications -  63
Citations -  5137

Sarah White is an academic researcher from University College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Autism & Theory of mind. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 60 publications receiving 4668 citations. Previous affiliations of Sarah White include Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging & National Institute for Health Research.

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Theories of developmental dyslexia: insights from a multiple case study of dyslexic adults

Franck Ramus, +6 more
- 01 Apr 2003 - 
TL;DR: The present data support the phonological theory of dyslexia, while acknowledging the presence of additional sensory and motor disorders in certain individuals.
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Mindblind Eyes: An Absence of Spontaneous Theory of Mind in Asperger Syndrome

Atsushi Senju, +4 more
- 14 Aug 2009 - 
TL;DR: An eye-tracking task that has revealed the spontaneous ability to mentalize in typically developing infants is used, and it is shown that, like infants, neurotypical adults’ eye movements anticipated an actor’s behavior on the basis of her false belief.
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Empathic brain responses in insula are modulated by levels of alexithymia but not autism

Geoffrey Bird, +5 more
- 01 May 2010 - 
TL;DR: The findings suggest that empathy deficits observed in autism may be due to the large comorbidity between alexithymic traits and autism, rather than representing a necessary feature of the social impairments in autism.
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Revisiting the Strange Stories: Revealing Mentalizing Impairments in Autism

Sarah White, +3 more
- 01 Jul 2009 - 
TL;DR: A test of advanced theory of mind for children (mental, human, animal, and nature stories plus unlinked sentences) found that a mentalizing deficit may affect understanding of biologic agents even when this does not explicitly require understanding others' mental states.
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The Role of Sensorimotor Impairments in Dyslexia: A Multiple Case Study of Dyslexic Children.

Sarah White, +8 more
- 01 May 2006 - 
TL;DR: This article investigated the role of sensorimotor impairments in the reading disability that characterizes dyslexia and found that the most common impairments were on phonological and visual stress tasks and the vast majority of dyslexics had one of these two impairments.