Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
7 results found in social cognition.
- Cross-neurotype communication (Cross-neurological communication, Neurotype-crossing communication)
- Communication between individuals with different neurological profiles, most commonly between autistic and neurotypical people. Cross-neurotype communication is characterized by differences in convers…
- Double empathy problem (Double empathy theory)
- A theory proposed by Damian Milton (2012) that reframes communication difficulties between autistic and neurotypical individuals as arising from a mutual lack of understanding rather than a deficit in…
- Facial Affect (Facial Expression of Emotion, Emotional Facial Expression)
- The display of emotion through facial movements, including changes in the position of the eyebrows, eyes, mouth, and other facial features that communicate a person's emotional or mental state. Facial…
- Joint Attention (Shared Attention)
- The shared focus of two or more individuals on the same object or event, typically involving one person directing another's attention through gaze, gesture, or verbal cues. Joint attention is a founda…
- Joint attention (Shared attention)
- The shared focus of two or more individuals on the same object or event, typically established through gaze, pointing, or other communicative cues. Joint attention is a foundational social-cognitive s…
- Perspective-taking (Cognitive empathy, Theory of mind)
- The cognitive ability to understand and consider another person's thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and point of view. In accessibility and neurodiversity contexts, perspective-taking is central to the dou…
- Theory of Mind (ToM, Mentalizing, Mind Reading)
- The cognitive ability to attribute mental states—beliefs, intentions, desires, emotions, knowledge—to oneself and others, and to understand that others may have mental states different from one's own.…