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Publication details [#56481]

Gernsbacher, Morton Ann and Sarah R. Pripas-Kapit. 2012. Who's Missing the Point? A Commentary on Claims that Autistic Persons Have a Specific Deficit in Figurative Language Comprehension. Metaphor and Symbol 27 (1) : 93–105.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

autistic language | empathy | figurative meaning, comprehension of | stereotype | theory of mind

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This study argues that apparently, there is no particular deficit, unique to autistic persons, in figurative language comprehension, nor do these persons seem to lack empathy or a “theory of mind.”