Samoświadomość w ujęciu kognitywnym a spektrum autyzmu
Self-awareness through the prism cognitive science and the perspective of autism spectrum

Summary/Abstract: One of the problems of modern cognitive sciences is an uncompleted and in-consistent definition of consciousness and self-awareness. It is connected to the interdisciplinary nature of cognitive science, which derives from such fields of science as: neurobiology, cognitive psychology, mind philosophy, linguis-tics, logic, physics as well as from research on artificial intelligence. Therefore, despite the existence of J. Baars cognitive theory of consciousness, this paper is focused on cog-nitive processes, that affect the self-consciousness of the individual. In order to create a picture of self-awareness in the cognitive approach, the cognitive mechanisms contained in the theory of mind (ToM) and theories of its development are presented, i.e. the theory of theory (TT), the theory of modularity and the theory of simulation. Self-awareness is increasingly conceived by finding neurophysiological correlates between recognizing conscious stimuli in a given situation and those that the subject is not aware of. The paper attempts to point out the influence of the presented cognitive processes on the selfconsciousness of people with autism. The article refers to the literature on the subject of the spectrum of autism as well as to neurological and neuro-functional correlates of autism. Flawed process of mentalization of autistic people was confirmed through research based on neuroimaging. This study is a theoretical concept emerging from the analysis of selected cognitive mechanisms and correlates with previous research on the subject of self-awareness of people with autism. It’s an attempt to draw an outline of the existing ambiguities and open questions regarding the self-awareness of people with the autism spectrum.

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