Uta Frith, “Exploring Autism” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Neuroscience
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The Brain Subtraction Technique
The idea was that we can use some kind of mental subtraction. We can say, people are asked to think about a scenario like this, sally anne, and we see what the brain does. The technique is used by asking them to think about something that's incredibly similar but doesn't involve mentalizing in our first experiment using brain scannes. And then we had little stories whech said things like, er, they had some kind of physical, mechanical cause and effect relationship.
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