Axiom, Anguish, and Amazement: How Autistic Traits Modulate Emotional Mental Imagery

• Main Authors: Esposito, Gianluca, Dellantonio, Sara, Mulatti, Claudio, Job, Remo
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: mental imagery; autistic traits
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81628; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40904
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Individuals differ in their ability to feel their own and others’ internal states, with those that have more autistic and less empathic traits clustering at the clinical end of the spectrum. However, when we consider semantic competence, this group could compensate with a higher capacity to imagine...