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I found a video on their video that explains a little bit more about this.
http://www.bcm.edu/web/news/rams/tvhl420064.ram
run time 1 min 35 seconds
the study is called

Self Responses along Cingulate Cortex Reveal Quantitative Neural Phenotype for High-Functioning Autism
Neuron, Volume 57, Issue 3, 7 February 2008, Pages 463-473
Pearl H. Chiu, M. Amin Kayali, Kenneth T. Kishida, Damon Tomlin, Laura G. Klinger, Mark R. Klinger and P. Read Montague
Look in a college library for Neuron

and http://www.neuron.org/content/article/a ... 7307010331
and found this http://www.neuron.org/cgi/content/full/ ... 1/mmc1.pdf

In this text (I can't post an U RL as I just registered in this forum, you can find it at Google, it's called 'I Cannot Tell a Lie - what people with autism can tell us about honesty' ) Simon Baron-Cohen talkes about the abilty of humans to deceive what separates them from other animals. He claims that autistics have rather problems with that, because it requires a theory of mind.

‚Rutgers psychologist Alan Leslie suggests that to deceive, the child must be able to represent two parallel but different versions of reality. The child knows that version 1 is the true description of an event, and that
version 2 is false or fictional but is held to be true to some other person. Leslie calls this ability to keep two parallel versions of reality simultaneously in mind the capacity for meta-representation. ‚

Normally you have an idea how you are seen by others, and you also influence that picture. You have the possibility to pretend to be something that you are not, in fact. I have difficulties with that: if somebody askes me something about me and I don´t say the truth, I have sort of a feeling, that he could ‚see’ that oder know that it is not true.

Perhaps this ‚self signal’ is a ‚how does the other see me signal’.

(Sorry for possibly poor expression – English is not my first language)