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Relevance: Communication and Cognition
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This article is published in Modern Language Review.The article was published on 1989-10-01. It has received 2154 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Relevance (information retrieval) & Cognition.read more
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The Neural Basis of Mentalizing
Chris D. Frith,Uta Frith +1 more
TL;DR: The human brain has the unique ability to represent the mental states of the self and the other and the relationship between these mental states, making possible the communication of ideas.
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Autism: beyond “theory of mind”
Uta Frith,Francesca Happé +1 more
TL;DR: The theory of mind account of autism has been remarkably successful in making specific predictions about the impairments in socialization, imagination and communication shown by people with autism, but cannot explain either the non-triad features of autism, or earlier experimental findings of abnormal assets and deficits on non-social tasks.
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Movement and Mind: A Functional Imaging Study of Perception and Interpretation of Complex Intentional Movement Patterns
TL;DR: A functional neuroimaging study with positron emission tomography in which six healthy adult volunteers were scanned while watching silent computer-presented animations showed increased activation in association with mental state attribution in four main regions: medial prefrontal cortex, temporoparietal junction, basal temporal regions, and extrastriate cortex.
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Communicative competence and theory of mind in autism: A test of relevance theory
TL;DR: Three experiments are reported which tested predictions following from the analysis of figurative language in terms of relevance and theory of mind, in able autistic and normal young subjects and the results lend support to relevance theory.