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Autism, language, and the folk psychology of souls

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2006

Stephen Flusberg  and
Helen Tager-Flusberg
Stephen Flusberg*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
Helen Tager-Flusberg*
Affiliation:
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA02118
*
sflus@stanford.edu
htagerf@bu.edu
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Abstract:

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Anecdotal evidence suggests that people with autism, with known impairments in mechanisms supporting a folk psychology of mind or souls, can hold a belief in an afterlife. We focus on the role language plays, not just in acquiring the specific content of beliefs, but more significantly, in the acquisition of the concept of life after death for all people.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 5 , October 2006 , pp. 473
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006