New brain imaging research reveals why autistic individuals confuse pronouns
Monday, August 1, 2011 - 13:30
in Psychology & Sociology
A new brain imaging study provides an explanation as to why autistic individuals' use of the wrong pronoun is more than simply a word choice problem. Researchers found that errors in choosing a self-referring pronoun reflect a disordered neural representation of the self, a function processed by at least two brain areas -- one frontal and one posterior.