predicts autism should be associated with "hypo-mentalizing" and schizophrenia with "hyper-mentalizing"; that is, that people in each group should have radically different impairments in mentalizing. this is a core component of the imprinted brain hypothesis, and one of the fundamental assumptions involved. however, meta-analysis of mentalizing skills in autism and schizophrenia does not support this claim. rather, both conditions appear to be associated with similar mentalizing impairments that share common processing deficits.