Autistic Traits Affect P300 Response to Unexpected Events, regardless of Mental State Inferences
Table 1
Examples of stimulus sentences (target words are italicized).
Condition
Context
Last sentence
Belief-Expected
Sally and Anne are in a room. Sally puts a marble inside the blue box While Sally is away Anne takes the marble from the box and puts inside the red box Then Sally comes back to the room
Sally looks for her marble in the blue box
Belief-Unexpected
Sally and Anne are in a room. Sally puts a marble inside the blue box While Sally is away Anne takes the marble from the box and puts inside the red box Then Sally comes back to the room
Sally looks for her marble in the red box
No-belief-Expected
Mark wakes up at six. Then he washes his face While Mark washes his face his mother put his breakfast on a table Mark comes to the dining room
After that Mark pours a cup of milk
No-belief-Unexpected
Mark wakes up at six. Then he washes his face While Mark washes his face his mother put his breakfast on a table Mark comes to the dining room
