Day 21: Autism, Evolution, and Mind Reading

• Questions on the final exam study questions?
• Introduction to Chapter 8
• Autism (and Asperger's Syndrome)
  • Description (p. 200)
  • Gaze Following
  • Role Play
  • False Belief Tasks
  • Three Theories of Autism (pp.200-205)
    • Empathy Disorder (extreme variant on high systematizing and low empathy behaviour)
    • Executive Function Disorder
    • Weak Central Coherence
• Evolution and Mind Reading
  • FaBER (see pp. 113-124)
  • Examples of Low-level Mind Reading (pp. 113-124, 217-220)
    • Anger
    • Disgust
  • Evolutionary Accounts
  • Contagion Mechanism
  • Exaptations
• Please read SM chapter 10 (and pay special attention to 10.1 to 10.4)
• To get ahead, read chapter 11; that is the final reading assignment for the course