Metacognition refers to cognitions about our own cognitions. In recent years, there has been
a concerted effort to examine metacognition among autistic people. The results from these …

Forty years ago, Gallup proposed that theory of mind presupposes self‐awareness.
Following Humphrey, his hypothesis was that individuals can infer the mental states of …

Quattrocki and Friston (2014) argued that abnormalities in interoception—the process of
representing one's internal physiological states—could lie at the heart of autism, because of …

Questions of how we know our own and other minds, and whether metacognition and
mindreading rely on the same processes, are longstanding in psychology and philosophy. In …

Evidence regarding the use of inner speech by individuals with autism spectrum disorder
(ASD) is equivocal. To clarify this issue, the current study employed multiple techniques and …

Many studies report atypical responses to sensory information in autistic individuals, yet it is
not clear which stages of processing are affected, with little consideration given to decision …

Memory for (and perception of) information about the self is superior to memory for (and
perception of) other kinds of information. This self‐reference effect (SRE) in memory appears …

Gender nonconformity is substantially elevated in the autistic population, but the reasons for
this are currently unclear. In a recent study, Kallitsounaki and Williams (Kallitsounaki and …

Emotion recognition difficulties are considered to contribute to social‐communicative
problems for autistic individuals and awareness of such difficulties may be critical for the …

Three experiments investigated the extent to which (a) individuals with autism show a self-
reference effect (ie, better memory for self-relevant information), and (b) the size of the self …